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List of WBA world champions is a table showing the world champions certificated by World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 (WBA). This list includes champions certificated by the National Boxing Association (NBA).

r – Champion relinquished title.

s – Champion stripped of title.

Minimumweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

January 10, 1988 — 1989r 1
2   Bong-Jun Kim April 16, 1989 — February 2, 1991 5
3   Hi-Yong Choi February 2, 1991 — October 14, 1992 4
4   Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi is a former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion.- Professional career :...

October 14, 1992 — February 10, 1993 0
5   Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin is a Thai boxer. Chana and his brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles ....

February 10, 1993 — December 2, 1995 8
6   Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw....

December 2, 1995 — November 13, 1998 5
7   Ricardo López November 13, 1998 — July 1999r 0
8   Noel Arambulet
Noel Arambulet
Noel Arambulet is a flyweight boxer.- Professional career :Nicknamed "El Verdugo", Arambulet turned pro in 1996 and captured the vacant WBA minimumweight title with a decision win over Joma Gamboa in 1999. He defended the belt once before being stripped of the title for not making weight for a...

October 9, 1999 — August 20, 2000 1
9   Joma Gamboa August 20, 2000 — December 6, 2000 0
10   Keitaro Hoshino
Keitaro Hoshino
Keitaro Hoshino is a flyweight boxer.- Professional career :Hoshino turned pro in 1988 and captured the WBA minimumweight title with a decision win over Joma Gamboa in 2000. He defended the belt once before losing it by split decision to Chana Porpaoin in 2001...

December 6, 2000 — April 16, 2001 0
11   Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin is a Thai boxer. Chana and his brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles ....

April 16, 2001 — August 25, 2001 0
12   Yutaka Niida August 25, 2001 — October 19, 2001r 0
13   Keitaro Hoshino (2) January 29, 2002 — July 29, 2002 0
14   Noel Arambulet (2) July 29, 2002 — July 2, 2004s 2
15   Yutaka Niida (2) July 3, 2004 — September 15, 2008 7
16   Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Kwanthai Sithmorseng is a professional boxer from Thailand. He fights in the strawweight division and is the reigning WBA Minimumweight World champion. He captured the title on November 5, 2010 by defeating Pigmy Kokietgym....

November 5, 2010 — April 19, 2011 0
I   Sammy Gutiérrez
Sammy Gutiérrez
Sammy Gutiérrez , is a Mexican professional boxer in the Strawweight division.Guty was born in San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla, Mexico. On October 23, 2010, he became the interim WBA Minimumweight champion by beating Columbian Luis Carrillo by 3rd round TKO.-References:...

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October 23, 2010 — Present 0
17   Muhammad Rachman
Muhammad Rachman
Mohammad Rachman Sawaluddin bin Suhaimat , is a professional boxer."The Rock Breaker" won the IBF World Strawweight Championship by a split decision against Daniel Reyes of Colombia...

April 19, 2011 — July 31, 2011 0
18   Pornsawan Porpramook
Pornsawan Porpramook
Pornsawan Porpramook is a Thai professional boxer in the minimumweight division and is a former World Boxing Association strawweight champion. Pornsawan has been also rated in the top ten by Ring Magazine at minimumweight until as of October 2011....

July 30, 2011 — Present 0

Light flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios is a judge on the New York Supreme Court for Queens County. Prior to sitting on the Supreme Court, Judge Rios served on the New York City Civil Court and the Housing Court. Judge Rios holds a B.S. degree from City College of New York, a M.A. degree from New York University, and a law...

August 23, 1975 — July 2, 1976 1
2   Juan Antonio Gúzman July 2, 1976 — October 10, 1976 0
3   Yoko Gushiken
Yoko Gushiken
was a Ryukyuan professional boxer from 1974-1981. His professional record is 23-1 and he held the title of WBA Light Flyweight champion 1976-1981.-Biography:...

October 10, 1976 — March 8, 1981 13
4   Pedro Flores
Pedro Flores (boxer)
Pedro Flores is a former Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Light Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

March 8, 1981 — July 19, 1981 0
5   Hwan-Jin Kim July 19, 1981 — December 16, 1981 1
6   Katsuo Tokashiki
Katsuo Tokashiki
Katsuo Tokashiki is an Okinawan former WBA Light flyweight champion. He currently works as an actor and television persona, and runs own boxing gym in Tokyo, Japan.- Childhood & Early Career :...

December 16, 1981 — July 10, 1983 5
7   Lupe Madera
Lupe Madera
Lupe Madera was a Mexican professional boxer. He held the title of World Boxing Association junior flyweight champion 1983–1984.-Career:...

July 10, 1983 — May 19, 1984 1
8   Francisco Quiróz
Francisco Quiroz
Francisco Quiroz was a WBA Lightweight champion.- Pro career :Quiroz turned pro in 1978 and captured the WBA light flyweight title with a KO win over Lupe Madera in 1984. He defended the belt once before losing a narrow decision to Joey Olivo in 1985...

May 19, 1984 — March 29, 1985 1
9   Joey Olivo March 29, 1985 — December 8, 1985 1
10   Myung-Woo Yuh
Myung-Woo Yuh
Yuh Myung-woo is a South Korean former 2-time WBA light flyweight boxing champion...

December 8, 1985 — December 17, 1991 17
11   Hiroki Ioka
Hiroki Ioka
Hiroki Ioka is a former WBC Minimumweight and WBA Lightweight champion. He was the first ever WBC Minimumweight champion, winning the title immediately after the minimumweight division was created....

December 17, 1991 — November 18, 1992 2
12   Myung-Woo Yuh (2) November 18, 1992 — 1993r 1
13   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

October 21, 1993 — February 4, 1995 3
14   Hi-Yong Choi February 4, 1995 — January 13, 1996 1
15   Carlos Murillo January 13, 1996 — May 21, 1996 1
16   Keiji Yamaguchi May 21, 1996 — December 3, 1996 1
17   Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan December 3, 1996 — July 2000s 5
18   Beibis Mendoza
Beibis Mendoza
Beibis Antonio Mendoza is a professional boxer from Colombia. He is a former WBA light-flyweight champion.- Amateur career :Mendoza was a member of the 1996 Colombian Olympic Team as a Light Flyweight...

August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001 0
19   Rosendo Alvarez
Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw....

March 3, 2001 — October 2, 2004s 3
20   Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez is a southpaw boxer. Fighting in the flyweight division, his record is 24-1 . He is currently the WBA world flyweight interim champion....

April 29, 2005 — 2006r 3
21   Kōki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

August 2, 2006 — January 18, 2007r 1
22   Juan Carlos Reveco
Juan Carlos Reveco
Juan Carlos Reveco is an Argentine professional boxer. He is currently the WBA light-flyweight champion.-Professional career:Reveco turned professional in 2004...

June 22, 2007 — December 8, 2007 1
23   Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum born January 31, 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Asloum is the former WBA light flyweight world champion.- Olympic results :...

December 8, 2007 — 2008 (retired) 1
24   Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

June 5, 2009 — Present (promoted to Super Champion August 8, 2010) 4
25   Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

July 17, 2010 — Present (promoted to Regular Champion August 8, 2010) 0
I   Roman Gonzalez
Román González (boxer)
Román Alberto González Luna is a Nicaraguan professional boxer who is the current WBA light flyweight champion and is the former WBA minimumweight champion.-Career:...

October 24, 2010 — Present 0

Flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Fidel La Barba
Fidel La Barba
Fidel LaBarba was a United States boxer and sportswriter. He was born in New York City, but grew up in Los Angeles, California. As a boy he sold newspapers and learned to fight on street corners. LaBarba was discovered at age 14 by manager George Blake who embarked him on an amateur career...

August 22, 1925 — October 22, 1927 1
2   Pinky Silverberg
Pinky Silverberg
Pinky Silverberg was a boxer in the flyweight division who briefly held the National Boxing Association flyweight title in 1927. Silverberg won his the title vacated by Fidel LaBarba, who had recently retired, by defeating Ruby Bradley on October 22, 1927, when Bradley was disqualified due to a...

October 22, 1927 — 1927s 0
3   Frenchy Belanger December 19, 1927 — February 6, 1928 0
4   Frankie Genaro
Frankie Genaro
Frank "Frankie" Genaro was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion...

February 6, 1928 — March 2, 1929 3
5   Emile Pladner March 2, 1929 — April 18, 1929 3
6   Frankie Genaro (2) April 18, 1929 — October 26, 1931 9
7   Victor Perez
Victor Perez
Victor "Young" Perez was a Sephardic Jew born in French Tunisia, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. He was born to Khmaïssa Perez a household goods salesman and Khaïlou René Perez. He was raised along with his four siblings in Dar-El Berdgana, the Jewish quarter of Tunis...

October 26, 1931 — October 31, 1932 0
8 Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (boxer)
For the Scottish flyweight boxer called Jackie Brown, see Jackie Brown .Jackie Brown was a flyweight boxer, who was British and European flyweight champion, and was also recognised by the National Boxing Association as the World flyweight champion.-Professional career:He had his first professional...

October 31, 1932 — September 9, 1935 4
9 Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced...

September 9, 1935 — June 29, 1938s 1
10 Peter Kane
Peter Kane
Peter Kane was one of England's greatest flyweight boxers and a world champion in the 1930s. Kane was born in Heywood, Lancashire, on February 28, 1918, but grew up in the town of Golborne, Lancashire, after his family moved there before his first birthday.-Boxing style:He was a two-fisted...

September 22, 1938 — June 19, 1943 1
11 Jackie Paterson
Jackie Paterson
Jackie Paterson was a Scottish boxer who was world flyweight boxing champion. He was also British champion at flyweight and bantamweight.-Early life:...

June 19, 1943 — July 31, 1947s 1
12 Rinty Monaghan
Rinty Monaghan
John Joseph "Rinty" Monaghan was a former world flyweight boxing champion from Belfast. He became famous in the post-war period, eventually rising to become undisputed world champion and a hero to many people in his home city....

March 23, 1948 — March 30, 1950r 1
13 Terry Allen
Terry Allen (boxer)
Terry Allen was an English flyweight boxer. During his career, he became British, Commonwealth, European and World flyweight champion.- Family :...

April 25, 1950 — August 1, 1950 0
14   Dado Marino August 1, 1950 — May 19, 1952 1
15   Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He won the world flyweight title in 1952, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win a world title.- Childhood and Early Career :...

May 19, 1952 — November 26, 1954 4
16   Pascual Pérez November 26, 1954 — April 16, 1960 9
17   Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch , a.k.a. Mana Seedokbuab was a professional Thai boxer and three time world flyweight champion. He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on April 16, 1960 when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumphini Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for the world flyweight championship...

April 16, 1960 — October 10, 1962 1
18   Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

October 10, 1962 — January 12, 1963 0
19   Pone Kingpetch (2) January 12, 1963 — September 18, 1963 0
20   Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara was a Japanese world-champion flyweight boxer from Fussa, Tokyo. His record includes 62 wins , 5 losses, and 1 draw. He was the first world flyweight champion certified by the World Boxing Council, and he was also certified by the World Boxing Association and The Ring...

September 18, 1963 — January 23, 1964 0
21   Pone Kingpetch (3) January 23, 1964 — April 23, 1965 0
22   Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni , was an Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer who fought between 1957 to 1969. Burruni was born in Alghero , and fought mostly in Europe.-Amateur career:...

April 23, 1965 — November 1965s 0
23   Horacio Accavallo
Horacio Accavallo
Horacio Enrique Accavallo was an Argentine flyweight boxer who fought from 1956 until 1967. He retired with a record of 75 wins , 2 losses and 6 draws....

March 1, 1966 — October 1, 1968r 3
24   Hiroyuki Ebihara (2) March 30, 1969 — October 19, 1969 0
25   Bernabe Villacampo October 19, 1969 — April 5, 1970 0
26   Berkrerk Chartvanchai April 5, 1970 — October 22, 1970 0
27   Masao Ohba
Masao Ohba
Masao Ohba was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He was the WBA flyweight champion at the time of his death.- Childhood and Early Career :...

October 22, 1970 — 1973r 0
28   Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi a.k.a. Chartchai Laemfapha is a former professional Thai boxer and WBC World champion in Flyweight division....

May 17, 1973 — October 18, 1974 2
29   Susumu Hanagata October 18, 1974 — April 1, 1975 0
30   Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria is a retired professional boxer from the Philippines. He's also a former WBA and WBC flyweight champion.- Biography :Salavarria made his professional debut in 1963. He captured the WBC flyweight title with a TKO win over Chartchai Chionoi in 1970...

April 1, 1975 — February 27, 1976 1
31   Alfonso Lopez February 27, 1976 — October 2, 1976 1
32   Guty Espadas
Guty Espadas
Guty Espadas was a Mexican professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council Flyweight Championship. He is also the Father of former World Champion Guty Espadas Jr.-WBC Flyweight Championship:...

October 2, 1976 — August 12, 1978 4
33   Betulio González
Betulio González
Betulio Segundo González is a former boxer from Venezuela, who is considered a national hero in Venezuela. He is considered by many to be Venezuela's greatest world champion in boxing history...

August 12, 1978 — November 17, 1979 3
34   Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra Castillo is a former Panamanian boxer who won the World Boxing Association flyweight championship. He was born on 1953-02-23 in Colón, Panama.-Pro career:...

November 17, 1979 — February 17, 1980 0
35   Tae-Shik Kim
Tae-Shik Kim
Tae-Shik Kim is a former boxer from South Korea.-Pro career:In 1980, Kim became the WBA Flyweight champion with a 2 round KO win over Luis Ibarra...

February 17, 1980 — December 13, 1980 1
36   Peter Mathebula December 13, 1980 — March 28, 1981 0
37   Santos Benigno Laciar March 28, 1981 — June 6, 1981 0
38   Luis Ibarra (2) June 6, 1981 — September 26, 1981 0
39   Juan Herrera
Juan Herrera
Juan Herrera is a retired Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

September 26, 1981 — May 1, 1982 1
40   Santos Benigno Laciar (2) May 1, 1982 — July 19, 1985r 9
41   Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata is a former boxer who was a two time world Jr. Flyweight champion and a one time world flyweight champion. Zapata is a Panamanian....

October 5, 1985 — February 13, 1987 5
42   Fidel Bassa
Fidel Bassa
Fidel Bassa, born 18 December 1962 in El Reten, Colombia, is a former professional boxer.He was WBA Flyweight Champion from 3 February 1987 until 30 September 1989...

February 13, 1987 — September 30, 1989 6
43   Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesus Kiki Rojas is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.- Boxing career :...

September 30, 1989 — March 10, 1990 0
44   Yul-Woo Lee March 10, 1990 — July 29, 1990 0
45   Leopard Tamakuma July 29, 1990 — March 14, 1991 1
46   Elvis Álvarez
Elvis Álvarez
Elvis Álvarez was professional boxer in the flyweight division.- Boxing career :...

March 14, 1991 — June 1, 1991 1
47   Yong-Kang Kim
Yong-Kang Kim
Yong-Kang Kim is a former professional boxer in the flyweight division.- Pro career :...

June 1, 1991 — September 26, 1992 2
48   Aquiles Guzman
Aquiles Guzman
Aquiles Guzman is a former Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Professional career :...

September 26, 1992 — December 15, 1992 0
49   David Griman
David Griman
David Griman is a former Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Amateur highlights :...

December 15, 1992 — February 13, 1994 2
50   Saen Sor Ploenchit February 13, 1994 — November 24, 1996 9
51   Jose Bonilla
Jose Bonilla (boxer)
Jose Bonilla , born in El Tigre, Anzoátegui) was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Professional career :...

November 24, 1996 — May 29, 1998 3
52   Hugo Rafael Soto
Hugo Rafael Soto
Hugo Rafael Soto is a former professional boxer.Fighting in the flyweight and super flyweight divisions, Soto had his first professional fight in 1988. He built up a record of 39-1-2 to earn a fight with WBC flyweight champion Yuri Arbachakov, but lost by an eighth round knockout...

May 29, 1998 — March 13, 1999 0
53   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

March 13, 1999 — September 3, 1999 0
54   Sornpichai Kratingdaenggym September 3, 1999 — August 5, 2000 1
55   Eric Morel
Eric Morel
Eric Arturo Morel is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Amateur career :...

August 5, 2000 — December 6, 2003 5
56   Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo "Lencho" Parra is a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion....

December 6, 2003 — March 19, 2007 5
57   Takefumi Sakata
Takefumi Sakata
is a Japanese boxer in the flyweight division and a former WBA flyweight champion.Sakata was the premier boxer in the Kyoei boxing gym before the arrival of Kōki Kameda in 2005...

March 19, 2007 — December 31, 2008 4
58   Denkaosan Kaovichit
Denkaosan Kaovichit
Denkaosan Kaovichit a.k.a. Denkaosan Redbull Gym. a.k.a. Denkaosan Singwangcha is a professional boxer from Thailand and reigning WBA Flyweight World champion. He is also a Muslim....

December 31, 2008 — February 7, 2010 2
59   Daiki Kameda
Daiki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the flyweight division. He is the former WBA Flyweight Champion. Kameda has made it his custom to sing a song for the audience after each of his victories.-Personal life:...

February 7, 2010 — January 4, 2011 2
I   Luis Concepcion
Luis Concepción
Luis Concepción is a professional boxer from Panama City. His nickname is "El Nica". The southpaw resides in the capital of Panama. His professional record includes 24 fights: 22 wins , and 2 losses. He won the WBA Interim Flyweight Title by TKO against Mexican Omar Salado on September 5, 2009...

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October 2, 2010 — January 4, 2011 2
60   Luis Concepcion
Luis Concepción
Luis Concepción is a professional boxer from Panama City. His nickname is "El Nica". The southpaw resides in the capital of Panama. His professional record includes 24 fights: 22 wins , and 2 losses. He won the WBA Interim Flyweight Title by TKO against Mexican Omar Salado on September 5, 2009...

January 4, 2011 — Present
I   Jean Piero Pérez
Jean Piero Pérez
Jean Piero Pérez is a Venezuelan professional boxer in the flyweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association flyweight champion.-Professional career:...

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January 29, 2011 — Present

Super flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Gustavo Ballas September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981 0
2   Rafael Pedroza December 5, 1981 — April 8, 1982 0
3   Jiro Watanabe
Jiro Watanabe
is a Japanese former boxerWatanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World Super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.-Biography:...

April 8, 1982 — July 5, 1984s 6
4   Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest...

November 21, 1984 — 1992r 19
5   Katsuya Onizuka
Katsuya Onizuka
is a former WBA Super Flyweight champion from Kitakyushu, Japan. Onizuka was an extremely popular boxer in Japan, creating a boxing boom in Japan during the early 1990s along with Joichiro Tatsuyoshi.-Biography:...

April 10, 1992 — September 18, 1994 5
6   Hyung-Chul Lee September 18, 1994 — July 22, 1995 1
7   Alimi Goitia July 22, 1995 — August 24, 1996 3
8   Yokthai Sithoar August 24, 1996 — December 23, 1997 4
9   Satoshi Iida December 23, 1997 — December 23, 1998 2
10   Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesus Kiki Rojas is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.- Boxing career :...

December 23, 1998 — July 31, 1999 1
11   Hideki Todaka
Hideki Todaka
Hideki Todaka is a former professional boxer who fought in the super flyweight and bantamweight divisions...

July 31, 1999 — October 9, 2000 2
12   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

October 9, 2000 — March 11, 2001 0
13   Celes Kobayashi
Celes Kobayashi
Celes Kobayashi is a former professional boxer from Ibaraki, Japan. He is a former WBA Super flyweight champion.He got his ring name, "Celes," from a company he used to work for...

March 11, 2001 — March 9, 2002 1
14   Alexander Muñoz
Alexander Muñoz
Alexander Muñoz is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, nicknamed "El Explosivo."- Boxing career :...

March 9, 2002 — December 3, 2004 3
15   Martín Castillo
Martín Castillo
José Martín Castillo is a boxer from Mexico, who is more commonly known as Martín Castillo. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is a former World Boxing Association Superflyweight champion.- Amateur career :Castillo had an Amateur Record of 160-20...

December 3, 2004 — July 22, 2006 3
16   Nobuo Nashiro
Nobuo Nashiro
Nobuo Nashiro is a professional boxer in the Super flyweight division as well as the WBA super flyweight champion.- Childhood :...

July 22, 2006 — May 3, 2007 1
17   Alexander Munoz (2) May 3, 2007 — May 17, 2008 2
18   Cristian Mijares
Cristian Mijares
Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares is a Mexican professional boxer. Mijares is the former WBC, WBA and current IBF Super Flyweight Champion. Cristian is the older brother of undefeated prospect Ricardo Mijares and the nephew of world title contender Vicente Mijares.-Early life:Cristian comes from a...

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May 17, 2008 — November 1, 2008 1
I   Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...

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August 15, 2009 — October 15, 2010 2
19   Nobuo Nashiro (2) – Septermber 15, 2008 — May 8, 2010 2
20   Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

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November 1, 2008— May 8, 2010 3
21   Hugo Cázares
Hugo Cázares
Hugo Fidel Cázares is a southpaw professional boxer in the Super flyweight division. He is the former WBA Super Flyweight champion and WBO Light Flyweight champion...

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May 8, 2010 — August 31, 2011 4
I   Drian Francisco
Drian Francisco
Adrian Francisco , more commonly known as Drian Francisco, is a Filipino professional boxer. Born in the province of Mindoro, Francisco currently resides in Agoncillo, Batangas...

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November 30, 2010 — Present
22   Tomonobu Shimizu
Tomonobu Shimizu
is a Japanese professional boxer who is the current WBA super flyweight champion in recess. He is an alumnus of the Tokyo University of Agriculture.-Biography:...

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August 31, 2011 — Present 0

Bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Joe Lynch
Joe Lynch (boxer)
Joseph Aloysius Lynch was an American Bantamweight boxer.-Pro career:He won the world title at that weight in 1920, defeating Pete Herman. Herman defeated him to regain the title the following year...

December 22, 1922 — March 21, 1924 1
2   Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein was an American boxer.He was World Bantamweight Champion in 1924, and was ranked the # 5 bantamweight of all time-Boxing career:...

March 21, 1924 — December 19, 1924 4
3   Eddie Martin December 19, 1924 — March 20, 1925 2
4   Charley Rosenberg March 20, 1925 — 1927r 2
5   Bud Taylor
Bud Taylor
Charles Bernard "Bud" Taylor was an American boxer from Terre Haute, Indiana. He was nicknamed the Terre Haute Terrier and the Blonde Terror of Terre Haute.-Pro Boxing Career:...

June 24, 1927 — January 24, 1928r 0
6   Panama Al Brown
Panama Al Brown
Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion. Brown was a native of the city of Colón....

June 18, 1929 — April 1935s 6
7   Sixto Escobar
Sixto Escobar
Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....

August 7, 1935 — August 26, 1935 0
8   Lou Salica August 26, 1935 — November 15, 1935 0
9   Sixto Escobar (2) November 15, 1935 — September 23, 1937 3
10   Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a former world bantamweight and NYSAC featherweight boxing champion...

September 23, 1937 — February 20, 1938 0
11   Sixto Escobar (3) February 20, 1938 — October 4, 1939r 1
12   Georgie Pace October 29, 1939 — September 24, 1940 0
13   Lou Salica (2) September 24, 1940 — August 7, 1942 5
14   Manuel Ortiz
Manuel Ortiz (boxer)
Manuel Ortiz was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. In 1996, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....

August 7, 1942 — January 6, 1947 14
15   Harold Dade
Harold Dade
Harold Dade was an American boxer and Bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:*Won the 1940 Chicago Golden Gloves Championship in the flyweight division by decision over Gene Evans...

January 6, 1947 — March 11, 1947 0
16   Manuel Ortiz (2) March 11, 1947 — May 31, 1950 4
17   Vic Toweel
Vic Toweel
Victor "Vic" Anthony Toweel was a South African boxer and former undisputed World bantamweight champion.Toweel was the first South African to hold a world title.-Personal:...

May 31, 1950 — November 15, 1952 3
18   Jimmy Carruthers
Jimmy Carruthers
James "Jimmy" William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Amateur career:...

November 15, 1952 — May 2, 1954r 3
19   Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen (boxer)
Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:...

September 19, 1954 — 1955s 0
20   Raul Macias
Raul Macias
Raúl Macías Guevara was a former Mexican boxer, actor, and boxing trainer. Born in the same Mexico City barrio as Rubén Olivares, Macías had always expressed pride at being Mexican...

March 9, 1955 — November 6, 1957 2
21   Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...

November 6, 1957 — July 8, 1959 0
22   Jose Becerra
Jose Becerra
Jesus "Hit man" Becerra is a retired Mexican boxer. He became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Early life:...

July 8, 1959 — August 30, 1960r 2
23   Eder Jofre
Eder Jofre
Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...

November 18, 1960 — May 18, 1965 8
24   Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

May 18, 1965 — February 27, 1968 4
25   Lionel Rose
Lionel Rose
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...

February 27, 1968 — August 22, 1969 3
26   Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

August 22, 1969 — October 16, 1970 2
27   Chucho Castillo
Chucho Castillo
Jesus Castillo Aguillera is a former Mexican boxer. Better known as Chucho Castillo, he was WBA and WBC Bantamweight champion in 1970....

October 16, 1970 — April 2, 1971 0
28   Rubén Olivares (2) April 2, 1971 — March 19, 1972 2
29   Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in the Bantamweight division.- Professional career :...

March 19, 1972 — July 29, 1972 0
30   Enrique Pinder July 29, 1972 — January 20, 1973 0
31   Romeo Anaya
Romeo Anaya
Romeo Anaya is a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is the former WBA World Bantamweight Champion.-Pro career:...

January 20, 1973 — November 3, 1973 2
32   Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor was a South African boxer who became the WBA Bantamweight champion in 1973.-Background:Taylor lived during the apartheid period; Born to Muriel and Joe Taylor on 15 July 1943. White South African...

November 3, 1973 — July 3, 1974 0
33   Soo-Hwan Hong July 3, 1974 — March 14, 1975 1
34   Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora Quiroz is a former Mexican boxer who fought from 1973 to 1980. Zamora was the silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He enjoyed a meteoric rise in his professional career...

March 14, 1975 — November 19, 1977 5
35   Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján was born in Córdoba, Argentina and lives in Mexico City where he writes, sings and runs workshops on creative writing. He has published poetry and children's literature , as well as a short story and a book that teaches a method of writing based on images...

November 19, 1977 — August 29, 1980 5
36   Julian Solís
Julian Solis
Julian Solís is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. He was born in the San Juan area of Río Piedras, but because of the closeness of his birthplace to Caguas, he often trained at the Bairoa Gym in Caguas...

August 29, 1980 — November 14, 1980 0
37   Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (boxer)
"Joltin'" Jeff Chandler is a former boxer. Chandler reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion from November 1980 to April 1984....

November 14, 1980 — April 7, 1984 9
38   Richie Sandoval
Richie Sandoval
Richard Sandoval was a Mexican-American professional boxer and is the former WBA Bantamweight Champion. Richard won a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games and was a U.S. Olympian during his amateur career...

April 7, 1984 — March 10, 1986 2
39   Gaby Canizales
Gaby Canizales
Jose 'Gaby' Canizales is a retired American boxer who won world championships in the bantamweight division. -Pro career:Canizales turned pro in 1979 and in 1983 challenged Jeff Chandler for the World Boxing Association bantamweight title but lost a decision. In 1986 he landed a shot at Richie...

March 10, 1986 — June 4, 1986 0
40   Bernardo Pinango
Bernardo Piñango
José Bernardo Piñango is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the Bantamweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he lost to Cuba's Juan Hernández on points ....

June 4, 1986 — 1987r 3
41   Takuya Muguruma
Takuya Muguruma (boxer)
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBA bantamweight champion. He is an alumnus of the Kinki University.Muguruma became interested in boxing at the age of a junior high school student. In high school, he belonged to the rugby club. As Muguruma was a slow runner, he was a substitute player...

March 29, 1987 — May 24, 1987 0
42   Chan-Yong Park May 24, 1987 — October 4, 1987 0
43   Wilfredo Vazquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

October 4, 1987 — May 9, 1988 1
44   Kaokor Galaxy
Kaokor Galaxy
Nirote Saenkham in Petchaboon, Thailand, is the twin brother of boxing star Khaosai Galaxy and twice world champion in his own right.Like his brother, Nirote Saenkham started his career in the sport of kickboxing and later switched to orthodox boxing...

May 9, 1988 — August 14, 1988 0
45   Sung-Kil Moon
Sung-Kil Moon
Moon Sung-Kil is a former two-division world champion boxer from South Korea. His name is also rendered Sung Kil Moon.- Amateur career :...

August 14, 1988 — July 9, 1989 2
46   Kaokor Galaxy (2) July 9, 1989 — October 18, 1989 0
47   Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....

October 18, 1989 — October 19, 1991 2
48   Israel Contreras
Israel Contreras
Israel Contreras is a former Venezuelan boxer who won the World Boxing Association bantamweight title. He had a supporting role in the Mel Gibson film Apocalypto.-Boxing career:...

October 19, 1991 — March 15, 1992 0
49   Eddie Cook March 15, 1992 — October 9, 1992 0
50   Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha is a former Colombian bantamweight boxer best known to win the WBA and later the WBO title as a pro.-Amateur:...

October 9, 1992 — October 23, 1993 2
51   Junior Jones
Junior Jones
Junior Jones is an American former professional boxer. Known by his nickname of "Poison", he won world championships at bantamweight and super bantamweight, and is best remembered for his two victories over then-undefeated Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.-Amateur career:Jones won two New York...

October 23, 1993 — April 22, 1994 1
52   John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson was an American bantamweight boxer. He briefly held a championship in that division.- Professional career :...

April 22, 1994 — July 16, 1994 0
53   Daorung Chuvatana
Daorung Chuvatana
Daorung Chuvatana also known as Surapol Sidangnoi is a retired boxer who won World titles in the Bantamweight weight divisions....

July 16, 1994 — September 17, 1995 2
54   Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veerapol Sahaprom is a former WBC and WBA Bantamweight Champion. He is from the Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand...

September 17, 1995 — January 28, 1996 0
55   Nana Konadu
Nana Konadu
Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah is a retired boxer who won World titles in two different weight divisions. Konadu turned pro in 1985 and in 1989 won the WBC Super Flyweight Title by winning a decision over Gilberto Roman. He lost the belt in his first defense to Sung Kil Moon in 1990 and lost a rematch to...

January 28, 1996 — October 27, 1996 0
56   Daorung Chuvatana (2) October 27, 1996 — June 21, 1997 1
57   Nana Konadu (2) June 21, 1997 — December 5, 1998 1
58   Johnny Tapia
Johnny Tapia
John Lee "Johnny" Tapia is a Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion.-Childhood:Johnny Tapia's life began with tragedy. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. At the age of 8, his mother Virginia was kidnapped, raped, hung, repeatedly stabbed, and...

December 5, 1998 — June 26, 1999 0
59   Paulie Ayala
Paulie Ayala
Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...

June 26, 1999 — August 7, 2001s 3
60   Eidy Moya
Eidy Moya
Eidy Moya is a retired boxer who won World titles in the bantamweight weight division.-Early life:Moya's natural boxing skills showed early in his life when older boys persuade him to brawl in the streets. The winner was awarded with a coke and Venezuelan home-made cookie named "Catalina"...

October 14, 2001 — April 19, 2002 1
61   Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl , aka Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion...

April 19, 2002 — October 11, 2004r 3
62   Wladimir Sidorenko
Wladimir Sidorenko
Volodymyr Sydorenko, or Vladimir Sidorenko, is a professional boxer in the bantamweight division. He is the former WBA world bantamweight champion, and twin brother of Valeriy Sydorenko.-Amateur career:...

February 26, 2005 — May 31, 2008 6
63   Anselmo Moreno
Anselmo Moreno
Anselmo Moreno is a professional boxer from El Martillo San Miguelito, Republic of Panama.He is the current WBA Bantamweight Super Champion. In August 2011, Moreno signed a four fight promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions.-Bantamweight:...

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May 31, 2008 — Present 7
64   Koki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

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December 26, 2010 — Present 0
I   Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz Dominguez is a Mexican professional boxer in the bantamweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association bantamweight champion.-Professional career:...

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January 22, 2011 — Present 0

Super bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Soo-Hwan Hong January 26, 1977 — May 7, 1978 1
2   Ricardo Cardona
Ricardo Cardona
Ricardo Cardona is a Latino chef in New York City who is the executive chef of Lua, Sofrito and Hudson River Cafe as well as the chef for the New York Yankees and their opponents during home games at Yankee Stadium.-Career:...

May 7, 1978 — May 4, 1980 5
3   Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph is a former American boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:Randolph had an outstanding amateur career...

May 4, 1980 — August 9, 1980 0
4   Sergio Victor Palma August 9, 1980 — June 12, 1982 5
5   Leo Cruz
Leo Cruz
Leonardo Cruz , better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.-Personal:...

June 12, 1982 — February 22, 1984 3
6   Loris Stecca
Loris Stecca
Loris Stecca Loris Stecca Loris Stecca (born March 30, 1960 is an Italian former world champion boxer. His brother Maurizio is also a former boxer and held the WBO world Featherweight title shortly during the late 1990s.-Professional career:...

February 22, 1984 — May 26, 1984 0
7   Victor Callejas
Victor Callejas
Victor Callejas is a Puerto Rican former boxer who was World Junior Featherweight champion. A native of Guaynabo, Callejas as a child wanted to be a singer, and his childhood friend, Orvil Miller, wanted to be a boxer. As it turned out, however, it was Callejas who was a boxer and Miller who...

May 26, 1984 — 1986r 2
8   Louie Espinoza
Louie Espinoza
Louie Espinoza is an American boxer in the Featherweight division. He now resides in Chandler, Arizona....

January 11, 1987 — November 28, 1987 2
9   Julio Gervacio
Julio Gervacio
Julio Antonio Gervacio is a former boxer and Super Bantamweight champion titleholder from the Dominican Republic.As a child, he relocated to Puerto Rico. He always expressed pride in his national background; and he considered himself a Dominican-Puerto Rican...

November 28, 1987 — February 27, 1988 0
10   Bernardo Pinango
Bernardo Piñango
José Bernardo Piñango is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the Bantamweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he lost to Cuba's Juan Hernández on points ....

February 27, 1988 — May 28, 1988 0
11   Juan Jose Estrada
Juan Jose Estrada
Juan José Estrada was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is a former WBC International and the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

May 28, 1988 — November 11, 1989 3
12   Jesús Salud
Jesus Salud
Jesus Salud Born 3 May 1963 is an American professional boxer of Filipino descent. Originally from Sinait in the Philippines, he resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. He won the World Boxing Association super bantamweight title by disqualification on December 11, 1989 in a bout against Juan Jose Estrada....

November 11, 1989 — 1990r 0
13   Luis Enrique Mendoza September 11, 1990 — October 7, 1991 4
14   Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in two weight divisions.- Professional career :...

October 7, 1991 — March 27, 1992 0
15   Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

March 27, 1992 — May 13, 1995 9
16   Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño Coloso is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who twice won the world title.-External links:*...

May 13, 1995 — 1998r 7
17   Enrique Sánchez
Enrique Sánchez
Enrique José Sánchez León was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division...

February 8, 1998 — December 12, 1998 0
18   Néstor Garza
Néstor Garza
Néstor Gabriel Garza is a Mexican boxer in the Light Welterweight division. He is a former Mexican National, WBO NABO, and the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

December 12, 1998 — March 4, 2000 2
19   Clarence Adams
Clarence Adams
Clarence Richard Adams is a former boxer. He has won a world title in the Super Bantamweight weight division.- Professional career :...

March 4, 2000 — 2001s 2
20   Yober Ortega November 17, 2001 — February 21, 2002 0
21   Yoddamrong Sithyodthong February 21, 2002 — May 18, 2002 0
22   Osamu Sato May 18, 2002 — October 9, 2002 0
23     Salim Medjkoune October 9, 2002 — July 4, 2003 1
24   Mahyar Monshipour
Mahyar Monshipour
Mahyar Monshipour is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006...

July 4, 2003 — March 18, 2006 5
25   Somsak Sithchatchawal
Somsak Sithchatchawal
Somsak Sithchatchawal is a professional boxer in the super bantamweight division.In March 2006, Sithchatchawal took part in what later won fight of the year when he challenged WBA Super Bantamweight champion Mahyar Monshipour. Sithchatchawal dropped Monshipour in the first round, and won via TKO...

March 18, 2006 — October 4, 2006 0
26   Celestino Caballero
Celestino Caballero
Celestino "Pelenchin" Caballero is a professional boxer from Panama. He is the former undisputed Super Bantamweight WBA & IBF and Super Champion for the WBA. On October 14th, 2011, Celestino became the new WBA Featherweight champion of the world after beating Jonathan Barros at Luna Park, Argentina...

October 4, 2006 — Present 8
27   Ricardo Cordoba
Ricardo Cordoba
Ricardo Alberto Cordoba Mosque, more commonly known as Ricardo Cordoba, is a Panamanian professional boxer who fights in the super bantamweight division.-Professional career:...

November 21, 2008 — March 21, 2009 0
28   Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne is a retired Irish professional boxer and a former WBA, and European super bantamweight champion.On Saturday 21 March 2009, Dunne waged the war that he would be best remembered for and defeated Ricardo Cordoba in the 11th round to become the WBA super bantamweight champion in a fight...

March 21, 2009 — September 26, 2009 0
29   Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Chalermwong Udomna , who boxes as Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, is a professional boxer from Thailand who fights in the super bantamweight division...

September 26, 2009 — October 2, 2010 3
30   Ryol Li Lee
Ryol Li Lee
Ryol Li Lee or Retsuri Lee is a professional boxer from Japan, born on May 20, 1982. He was born in Kadoma, Osaka, and lives in Yokohama, Kanagawa.-Biography:Lee won his first fight by third round KO in 2005...

October 2, 2010 — January 31, 2010 0
31   Akifumi Shimoda
Akifumi Shimoda
is a super bantamweight boxer from Japan and the former world champion of WBA at Super bantamweight. He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, grew up in Kure city, and currently lives in Tokyo...

January 31, 2010 — July 9, 2011 0
32   Rico Ramos
Rico Ramos
Rico Dashon Ramos is an American Super Bantamweight boxer of Puerto Rican descent. He is the current WBA world super bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:...

July 9, 2011 — Present 0
I   Guillermo Rigondeaux – November 13, 2010 — Present 1

Featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

September 12, 1927 — February 10, 1928 0
2   Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...

February 10, 1928 — September 28, 1928 0
3   Andre Routis
Andre Routis
Andre Routis was a French professional boxer. He fought 86 times between 1919 and 1929; winning 54 , losing 25 and drawing 7. After a victory over Tony Canzoneri he held the world featherweight title from 1928 to 1929...

September 28, 1928 — September 23, 1929 1
4   Battling Battalino
Battling Battalino
Christopher Battaglia better known as Battling Battalino, was an American former world featherweight boxing champion...

September 23, 1929 — January 27, 1932r 0
5   Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul was an a former world featherweight boxing champion from Buffalo, NY. He was inducted into the first class of Buffalo’s Ring No. 44 Boxing Hall of Fame and in 2003 to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. He won the world featherweight championship in May 1932, defeating Johnny Pena...

May 26, 1932 — January 13, 1933 0
6   Freddie Miller
Freddie Miller (boxer)
Freddie Miller was an American boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio. Freddie Miller was one of the very best featherweight boxers of the 1930s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years....

January 13, 1933 — May 11, 1936 12
7   Petey Sarron
Petey Sarron
Petey Sarron was a member of the Olympic Team at flyweight in boxing for the United States during the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...

May 11, 1936 — October 29, 1937 2
8   Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...

October 29, 1937 — 1937r 0
9   Joey Archibald
Joey Archibald
Joey Archibald was the former world boxing featherweight champion. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island....

April 18, 1939 — April 1940s 0
10   Petey Scalzo
Petey Scalzo
Petey Scalzo is an American boxer from Brooklyn, New York.Petey Scalzo fought Frankie Covelli for the National Boxing Association World featherweight title at Griffith Stadium Petey beat Covelli by TKO....

May 15, 1940 — July 1, 1941 2
11   Richie Lemos
Richie Lemos
Richie Lemos was a Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division...

July 1, 1941 — November 18, 1941 0
12   Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson (Boxer)
Jackie Wilson was an American boxer born in South Carolina but raised and listed from Pittsburgh. He was undefeated in his first 6 fights with a record of 4-0-2....

November 18, 1941 — January 18, 1943 1
13   Jackie Callura
Jackie Callura
John "Jackie" Callura was a Canadian featherweight boxer.He was born and died in Hamilton, Ontario,.Callura won the national featherweight title in 1931 and was a member of the 1932 Summer Olympics team....

January 18, 1943 — August 16, 1943 1
14   Phil Terranova
Phil Terranova
Phil Terranova was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion. Terranova won the crown when he KO'ed Jackie Callura on August 16, 1943, and lost the belt when he was outpointed by Sal Bartolo on March 10, 1944.Terranova retired with a record of 67 wins , 21 losses and 11 draws...

August 16, 1943 — March 10, 1944 1
15   Sal Bartolo
Sal Bartolo
Salvatore Interbartolo, better known as Sal Bartolo was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion.-Amateur career:...

March 10, 1944 — June 7, 1946 3
16   Willie Pep
Willie Pep
Guglielmo Papaleo was an American boxer who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts...

June 7, 1946 — October 29, 1948 2
17   Sandy Saddler
Sandy Saddler
Joseph "Sandy" Saddler was an American boxer born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, and also held the junior lightweight crown. Over his twelve-year career , Saddler scored 103 knockouts. He was stopped only once, in his second pro fight, by Jock Leslie. ...

October 29, 1948 — February 11, 1949 2
18   Willie Pep (2) February 11, 1949 — September 8, 1950 3
19   Sandy Saddler (2) September 8, 1950 — 1953r 1
20   Sandy Saddler (3) February 25, 1955 — 1956r 1
21   Sugar Ramos
Sugar Ramos
Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...

March 21, 1963 — September 26, 1964 3
22   Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Samuel Saldivar García was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion...

September 26, 1964 — 1967r 7
23   Raul Rojas
Raul Rojas
Raul Rojas is a retired Mexican American featherweight boxer.He accumulated a record of 38 wins , 7 losses and 2 draws. On March 28, 1968, Rojas defeated Enrique Higgins to win the WBA Featherweight title, which Vicente Saldivar had vacated after announcing his retirement. He lost the title on...

March 28, 1968 — September 27, 1968 0
24   Shozo Saijo
Shozo Saijo
Shozo Saijo is a former professional boxer from Saitama, Japan. He is a former WBA featherweight champion.- Biography :...

September 27, 1968 — September 2, 1971 5
25   Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez is a former professional boxer who fought in the featherweight division. Gomez won the WBA world featherweight title in 1971.-Professional career:...

September 2, 1971 — August 19, 1972 1
26   Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel is a retired Panamanian boxer.-Career:Making his professional debut as a teenager in 1966, Marcel built up a record of 31-3-1, which included a second round knockout of Bernardo Caraballo, who had previously fought Fighting Harada and Éder Jofre for world titles, and a tenth round...

August 19, 1972 — February 16, 1974r 4
27   Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

July 9, 1974 — November 23, 1974 0
28   Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...

November 23, 1974 — 1976r 4
29   Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega is a former professional boxer. The highlight of his career came in 1977, when he won the WBA World featherweight title.-Professional career:...

January 15, 1977 — December 17, 1977 1
30   Cecilio Lastra
Cecilio Lastra
Cecilio Lastra is a former Spanish professional boxer. He fought 54 times between 1975 and 1982; winning 39 , losing 13 and drawing 2. The highlight of Lastra's career came in 1977 when he won the WBA world featherweight title against Rafael Ortega...

December 17, 1977 — April 15, 1978 0
31   Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too...

April 15, 1978 — June 8, 1985 19
32   Barry McGuigan
Barry McGuigan
Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...

June 8, 1985 — June 23, 1986 2
33   Steve Cruz June 23, 1986 — March 6, 1987 0
34   Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza Betancourt was a boxer in the featherweight division from Venezuela.- Amateur career :Esparragoza represented Venezuela as a Featherweight at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.*1st round bye...

March 6, 1987 — March 30, 1991 7
35   Yong-Kyun Park
Yong-Kyun Park
Yong-Kyun Park is a former Korean boxer. He was the Lineal & WBA Featherweight Champion from 1991-1993.-References:...

March 30, 1991 — December 4, 1993 8
36   Eloy Rojas
Eloy Rojas
Eloy David Rojas Leandro was a professional boxer in the Featherweight division.Rojas turned pro in 1986 and won the Lineal & WBA Featherweight Titles in 1993 by defeating Yong-Kyun Park by decision. He defended the titles six times before losing them to Wilfredo Vazquez in 1996 via TKO in a...

December 4, 1993 — May 18, 1996 6
37   Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

May 18, 1996 — 1997s 4
38   Freddie Norwood
Freddie Norwood
Freddie Norwood is a boxer in the lightweight division. Known as "Lil Hagler", Norwood defeated Antonio Cermeño to win the WBA Featherweight Title title in 1998. He successfully defended his title eight times before losing his title by a controversial 11th round TKO to Smoke Gainer...

April 3, 1998 — 1998s 2
39   Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño Coloso is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who twice won the world title.-External links:*...

October 3, 1998 — May 29, 1999 1
40   Freddie Norwood (2) May 29, 1999 — September 9, 2000 3
41   Derrick Gainer
Derrick Gainer
Derrick "Smoke" Gainer is a US born boxer who started out in the featherweight division and now fights in the lightweight division. In 2000, he defeated Freddie Norwood to win the World Boxing Association featherweight title and after four defenses lost to Juan Manuel Márquez, who became super...

September 9, 2000 — November 1, 2003 3
42   Juan Manuel Marquez
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

November 1, 2003 — 2005s 3
43   Chris John
Chris John (boxer)
Yohannes Christian John is an Indonesian professional boxer, and the current WBA featherweight champion....

November 1, 2003 — Present 15
44   Yuriorkis Gamboa – July 23, 2009 — Present 3
45   Jonathan Victor Barros
Jonathan Victor Barros
Jonathan Victor Barros is an Argentine featherweight boxer and is the current WBA World featherweight champion.-IBF featherweight championship:...

 –
December 4, 2010 — Present 1

Super featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....

November 18, 1921 — May 30, 1923 4
2   Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein, also known as "John Dodick," "Kid Murphy," and Young Murphy," was an American boxer. He was World Junior lightweight Champion, with the title taken from and later lost to Johnny Dundee Jack bernstein exposed zionists and was murdered by mossad....

May 30, 1923 — December 17, 1923 1
3   Johnny Dundee (2) December 17, 1923 — June 20, 1924 0
4   Steve Sullivan June 20, 1924 — December 15, 1924 2
5   Mike Ballerino December 15, 1924 — December 2, 1925 3
6   Tod Morgan
Tod Morgan
Albert Morgan Pilkington, better known as "Tod Morgan," , was an American boxer.-Background:According to the April 7, 1927 Spokane Spokesman-Review, Morgan was born in Dungeness, WA--which is adjacent to Sequim...

December 2, 1925 — December 20, 1929 12
7   Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

December 20, 1929 — July 15, 1931 1
8   Eligio
List of WBA world champions is a table showing the world champions certificated by
World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 (WBA). This list includes champions certificated by the National Boxing Association (NBA).

r – Champion relinquished title.

s – Champion stripped of title.
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Minimumweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

January 10, 1988 — 1989r 1
2   Bong-Jun Kim April 16, 1989 — February 2, 1991 5
3   Hi-Yong Choi February 2, 1991 — October 14, 1992 4
4   Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi is a former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion.- Professional career :...

October 14, 1992 — February 10, 1993 0
5   Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin is a Thai boxer. Chana and his brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles ....

February 10, 1993 — December 2, 1995 8
6   Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw....

December 2, 1995 — November 13, 1998 5
7   Ricardo López November 13, 1998 — July 1999r 0
8   Noel Arambulet
Noel Arambulet
Noel Arambulet is a flyweight boxer.- Professional career :Nicknamed "El Verdugo", Arambulet turned pro in 1996 and captured the vacant WBA minimumweight title with a decision win over Joma Gamboa in 1999. He defended the belt once before being stripped of the title for not making weight for a...

October 9, 1999 — August 20, 2000 1
9   Joma Gamboa August 20, 2000 — December 6, 2000 0
10   Keitaro Hoshino
Keitaro Hoshino
Keitaro Hoshino is a flyweight boxer.- Professional career :Hoshino turned pro in 1988 and captured the WBA minimumweight title with a decision win over Joma Gamboa in 2000. He defended the belt once before losing it by split decision to Chana Porpaoin in 2001...

December 6, 2000 — April 16, 2001 0
11   Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin is a Thai boxer. Chana and his brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles ....

April 16, 2001 — August 25, 2001 0
12   Yutaka Niida August 25, 2001 — October 19, 2001r 0
13   Keitaro Hoshino (2) January 29, 2002 — July 29, 2002 0
14   Noel Arambulet (2) July 29, 2002 — July 2, 2004s 2
15   Yutaka Niida (2) July 3, 2004 — September 15, 2008 7
16   Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Kwanthai Sithmorseng is a professional boxer from Thailand. He fights in the strawweight division and is the reigning WBA Minimumweight World champion. He captured the title on November 5, 2010 by defeating Pigmy Kokietgym....

November 5, 2010 — April 19, 2011 0
I   Sammy Gutiérrez
Sammy Gutiérrez
Sammy Gutiérrez , is a Mexican professional boxer in the Strawweight division.Guty was born in San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla, Mexico. On October 23, 2010, he became the interim WBA Minimumweight champion by beating Columbian Luis Carrillo by 3rd round TKO.-References:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
October 23, 2010 — Present 0
17   Muhammad Rachman
Muhammad Rachman
Mohammad Rachman Sawaluddin bin Suhaimat , is a professional boxer."The Rock Breaker" won the IBF World Strawweight Championship by a split decision against Daniel Reyes of Colombia...

April 19, 2011 — July 31, 2011 0
18   Pornsawan Porpramook
Pornsawan Porpramook
Pornsawan Porpramook is a Thai professional boxer in the minimumweight division and is a former World Boxing Association strawweight champion. Pornsawan has been also rated in the top ten by Ring Magazine at minimumweight until as of October 2011....

July 30, 2011 — Present 0

Light flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios is a judge on the New York Supreme Court for Queens County. Prior to sitting on the Supreme Court, Judge Rios served on the New York City Civil Court and the Housing Court. Judge Rios holds a B.S. degree from City College of New York, a M.A. degree from New York University, and a law...

August 23, 1975 — July 2, 1976 1
2   Juan Antonio Gúzman July 2, 1976 — October 10, 1976 0
3   Yoko Gushiken
Yoko Gushiken
was a Ryukyuan professional boxer from 1974-1981. His professional record is 23-1 and he held the title of WBA Light Flyweight champion 1976-1981.-Biography:...

October 10, 1976 — March 8, 1981 13
4   Pedro Flores
Pedro Flores (boxer)
Pedro Flores is a former Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Light Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

March 8, 1981 — July 19, 1981 0
5   Hwan-Jin Kim July 19, 1981 — December 16, 1981 1
6   Katsuo Tokashiki
Katsuo Tokashiki
Katsuo Tokashiki is an Okinawan former WBA Light flyweight champion. He currently works as an actor and television persona, and runs own boxing gym in Tokyo, Japan.- Childhood & Early Career :...

December 16, 1981 — July 10, 1983 5
7   Lupe Madera
Lupe Madera
Lupe Madera was a Mexican professional boxer. He held the title of World Boxing Association junior flyweight champion 1983–1984.-Career:...

July 10, 1983 — May 19, 1984 1
8   Francisco Quiróz
Francisco Quiroz
Francisco Quiroz was a WBA Lightweight champion.- Pro career :Quiroz turned pro in 1978 and captured the WBA light flyweight title with a KO win over Lupe Madera in 1984. He defended the belt once before losing a narrow decision to Joey Olivo in 1985...

May 19, 1984 — March 29, 1985 1
9   Joey Olivo March 29, 1985 — December 8, 1985 1
10   Myung-Woo Yuh
Myung-Woo Yuh
Yuh Myung-woo is a South Korean former 2-time WBA light flyweight boxing champion...

December 8, 1985 — December 17, 1991 17
11   Hiroki Ioka
Hiroki Ioka
Hiroki Ioka is a former WBC Minimumweight and WBA Lightweight champion. He was the first ever WBC Minimumweight champion, winning the title immediately after the minimumweight division was created....

December 17, 1991 — November 18, 1992 2
12   Myung-Woo Yuh (2) November 18, 1992 — 1993r 1
13   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

October 21, 1993 — February 4, 1995 3
14   Hi-Yong Choi February 4, 1995 — January 13, 1996 1
15   Carlos Murillo January 13, 1996 — May 21, 1996 1
16   Keiji Yamaguchi May 21, 1996 — December 3, 1996 1
17   Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan December 3, 1996 — July 2000s 5
18   Beibis Mendoza
Beibis Mendoza
Beibis Antonio Mendoza is a professional boxer from Colombia. He is a former WBA light-flyweight champion.- Amateur career :Mendoza was a member of the 1996 Colombian Olympic Team as a Light Flyweight...

August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001 0
19   Rosendo Alvarez
Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw....

March 3, 2001 — October 2, 2004s 3
20   Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez is a southpaw boxer. Fighting in the flyweight division, his record is 24-1 . He is currently the WBA world flyweight interim champion....

April 29, 2005 — 2006r 3
21   Kōki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

August 2, 2006 — January 18, 2007r 1
22   Juan Carlos Reveco
Juan Carlos Reveco
Juan Carlos Reveco is an Argentine professional boxer. He is currently the WBA light-flyweight champion.-Professional career:Reveco turned professional in 2004...

June 22, 2007 — December 8, 2007 1
23   Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum born January 31, 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Asloum is the former WBA light flyweight world champion.- Olympic results :...

December 8, 2007 — 2008 (retired) 1
24   Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
June 5, 2009 — Present (promoted to Super Champion August 8, 2010) 4
25   Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
July 17, 2010 — Present (promoted to Regular Champion August 8, 2010) 0
I   Roman Gonzalez
Román González (boxer)
Román Alberto González Luna is a Nicaraguan professional boxer who is the current WBA light flyweight champion and is the former WBA minimumweight champion.-Career:...

– {{small|Interim Champion}}
October 24, 2010 — Present 0

Flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Fidel La Barba
Fidel La Barba
Fidel LaBarba was a United States boxer and sportswriter. He was born in New York City, but grew up in Los Angeles, California. As a boy he sold newspapers and learned to fight on street corners. LaBarba was discovered at age 14 by manager George Blake who embarked him on an amateur career...

August 22, 1925 — October 22, 1927 1
2   Pinky Silverberg
Pinky Silverberg
Pinky Silverberg was a boxer in the flyweight division who briefly held the National Boxing Association flyweight title in 1927. Silverberg won his the title vacated by Fidel LaBarba, who had recently retired, by defeating Ruby Bradley on October 22, 1927, when Bradley was disqualified due to a...

October 22, 1927 — 1927s 0
3   Frenchy Belanger December 19, 1927 — February 6, 1928 0
4   Frankie Genaro
Frankie Genaro
Frank "Frankie" Genaro was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion...

February 6, 1928 — March 2, 1929 3
5   Emile Pladner March 2, 1929 — April 18, 1929 3
6   Frankie Genaro (2) April 18, 1929 — October 26, 1931 9
7   Victor Perez
Victor Perez
Victor "Young" Perez was a Sephardic Jew born in French Tunisia, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. He was born to Khmaïssa Perez a household goods salesman and Khaïlou René Perez. He was raised along with his four siblings in Dar-El Berdgana, the Jewish quarter of Tunis...

October 26, 1931 — October 31, 1932 0
8 Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (boxer)
For the Scottish flyweight boxer called Jackie Brown, see Jackie Brown .Jackie Brown was a flyweight boxer, who was British and European flyweight champion, and was also recognised by the National Boxing Association as the World flyweight champion.-Professional career:He had his first professional...

October 31, 1932 — September 9, 1935 4
9 Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced...

September 9, 1935 — June 29, 1938s 1
10 Peter Kane
Peter Kane
Peter Kane was one of England's greatest flyweight boxers and a world champion in the 1930s. Kane was born in Heywood, Lancashire, on February 28, 1918, but grew up in the town of Golborne, Lancashire, after his family moved there before his first birthday.-Boxing style:He was a two-fisted...

September 22, 1938 — June 19, 1943 1
11 Jackie Paterson
Jackie Paterson
Jackie Paterson was a Scottish boxer who was world flyweight boxing champion. He was also British champion at flyweight and bantamweight.-Early life:...

June 19, 1943 — July 31, 1947s 1
12 Rinty Monaghan
Rinty Monaghan
John Joseph "Rinty" Monaghan was a former world flyweight boxing champion from Belfast. He became famous in the post-war period, eventually rising to become undisputed world champion and a hero to many people in his home city....

March 23, 1948 — March 30, 1950r 1
13 Terry Allen
Terry Allen (boxer)
Terry Allen was an English flyweight boxer. During his career, he became British, Commonwealth, European and World flyweight champion.- Family :...

April 25, 1950 — August 1, 1950 0
14   Dado Marino August 1, 1950 — May 19, 1952 1
15   Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He won the world flyweight title in 1952, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win a world title.- Childhood and Early Career :...

May 19, 1952 — November 26, 1954 4
16   Pascual Pérez November 26, 1954 — April 16, 1960 9
17   Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch , a.k.a. Mana Seedokbuab was a professional Thai boxer and three time world flyweight champion. He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on April 16, 1960 when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumphini Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for the world flyweight championship...

April 16, 1960 — October 10, 1962 1
18   Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

October 10, 1962 — January 12, 1963 0
19   Pone Kingpetch (2) January 12, 1963 — September 18, 1963 0
20   Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara was a Japanese world-champion flyweight boxer from Fussa, Tokyo. His record includes 62 wins , 5 losses, and 1 draw. He was the first world flyweight champion certified by the World Boxing Council, and he was also certified by the World Boxing Association and The Ring...

September 18, 1963 — January 23, 1964 0
21   Pone Kingpetch (3) January 23, 1964 — April 23, 1965 0
22   Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni , was an Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer who fought between 1957 to 1969. Burruni was born in Alghero , and fought mostly in Europe.-Amateur career:...

April 23, 1965 — November 1965s 0
23   Horacio Accavallo
Horacio Accavallo
Horacio Enrique Accavallo was an Argentine flyweight boxer who fought from 1956 until 1967. He retired with a record of 75 wins , 2 losses and 6 draws....

March 1, 1966 — October 1, 1968r 3
24   Hiroyuki Ebihara (2) March 30, 1969 — October 19, 1969 0
25   Bernabe Villacampo October 19, 1969 — April 5, 1970 0
26   Berkrerk Chartvanchai April 5, 1970 — October 22, 1970 0
27   Masao Ohba
Masao Ohba
Masao Ohba was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He was the WBA flyweight champion at the time of his death.- Childhood and Early Career :...

October 22, 1970 — 1973r 0
28   Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi a.k.a. Chartchai Laemfapha is a former professional Thai boxer and WBC World champion in Flyweight division....

May 17, 1973 — October 18, 1974 2
29   Susumu Hanagata October 18, 1974 — April 1, 1975 0
30   Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria is a retired professional boxer from the Philippines. He's also a former WBA and WBC flyweight champion.- Biography :Salavarria made his professional debut in 1963. He captured the WBC flyweight title with a TKO win over Chartchai Chionoi in 1970...

April 1, 1975 — February 27, 1976 1
31   Alfonso Lopez February 27, 1976 — October 2, 1976 1
32   Guty Espadas
Guty Espadas
Guty Espadas was a Mexican professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council Flyweight Championship. He is also the Father of former World Champion Guty Espadas Jr.-WBC Flyweight Championship:...

October 2, 1976 — August 12, 1978 4
33   Betulio González
Betulio González
Betulio Segundo González is a former boxer from Venezuela, who is considered a national hero in Venezuela. He is considered by many to be Venezuela's greatest world champion in boxing history...

August 12, 1978 — November 17, 1979 3
34   Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra Castillo is a former Panamanian boxer who won the World Boxing Association flyweight championship. He was born on 1953-02-23 in Colón, Panama.-Pro career:...

November 17, 1979 — February 17, 1980 0
35   Tae-Shik Kim
Tae-Shik Kim
Tae-Shik Kim is a former boxer from South Korea.-Pro career:In 1980, Kim became the WBA Flyweight champion with a 2 round KO win over Luis Ibarra...

February 17, 1980 — December 13, 1980 1
36   Peter Mathebula December 13, 1980 — March 28, 1981 0
37   Santos Benigno Laciar March 28, 1981 — June 6, 1981 0
38   Luis Ibarra (2) June 6, 1981 — September 26, 1981 0
39   Juan Herrera
Juan Herrera
Juan Herrera is a retired Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

September 26, 1981 — May 1, 1982 1
40   Santos Benigno Laciar (2) May 1, 1982 — July 19, 1985r 9
41   Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata is a former boxer who was a two time world Jr. Flyweight champion and a one time world flyweight champion. Zapata is a Panamanian....

October 5, 1985 — February 13, 1987 5
42   Fidel Bassa
Fidel Bassa
Fidel Bassa, born 18 December 1962 in El Reten, Colombia, is a former professional boxer.He was WBA Flyweight Champion from 3 February 1987 until 30 September 1989...

February 13, 1987 — September 30, 1989 6
43   Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesus Kiki Rojas is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.- Boxing career :...

September 30, 1989 — March 10, 1990 0
44   Yul-Woo Lee March 10, 1990 — July 29, 1990 0
45   Leopard Tamakuma July 29, 1990 — March 14, 1991 1
46   Elvis Álvarez
Elvis Álvarez
Elvis Álvarez was professional boxer in the flyweight division.- Boxing career :...

March 14, 1991 — June 1, 1991 1
47   Yong-Kang Kim
Yong-Kang Kim
Yong-Kang Kim is a former professional boxer in the flyweight division.- Pro career :...

June 1, 1991 — September 26, 1992 2
48   Aquiles Guzman
Aquiles Guzman
Aquiles Guzman is a former Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Professional career :...

September 26, 1992 — December 15, 1992 0
49   David Griman
David Griman
David Griman is a former Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Amateur highlights :...

December 15, 1992 — February 13, 1994 2
50   Saen Sor Ploenchit February 13, 1994 — November 24, 1996 9
51   Jose Bonilla
Jose Bonilla (boxer)
Jose Bonilla , born in El Tigre, Anzoátegui) was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Professional career :...

November 24, 1996 — May 29, 1998 3
52   Hugo Rafael Soto
Hugo Rafael Soto
Hugo Rafael Soto is a former professional boxer.Fighting in the flyweight and super flyweight divisions, Soto had his first professional fight in 1988. He built up a record of 39-1-2 to earn a fight with WBC flyweight champion Yuri Arbachakov, but lost by an eighth round knockout...

May 29, 1998 — March 13, 1999 0
53   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

March 13, 1999 — September 3, 1999 0
54   Sornpichai Kratingdaenggym September 3, 1999 — August 5, 2000 1
55   Eric Morel
Eric Morel
Eric Arturo Morel is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Amateur career :...

August 5, 2000 — December 6, 2003 5
56   Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo "Lencho" Parra is a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion....

December 6, 2003 — March 19, 2007 5
57   Takefumi Sakata
Takefumi Sakata
is a Japanese boxer in the flyweight division and a former WBA flyweight champion.Sakata was the premier boxer in the Kyoei boxing gym before the arrival of Kōki Kameda in 2005...

March 19, 2007 — December 31, 2008 4
58   Denkaosan Kaovichit
Denkaosan Kaovichit
Denkaosan Kaovichit a.k.a. Denkaosan Redbull Gym. a.k.a. Denkaosan Singwangcha is a professional boxer from Thailand and reigning WBA Flyweight World champion. He is also a Muslim....

December 31, 2008 — February 7, 2010 2
59   Daiki Kameda
Daiki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the flyweight division. He is the former WBA Flyweight Champion. Kameda has made it his custom to sing a song for the audience after each of his victories.-Personal life:...

February 7, 2010 — January 4, 2011 2
I   Luis Concepcion
Luis Concepción
Luis Concepción is a professional boxer from Panama City. His nickname is "El Nica". The southpaw resides in the capital of Panama. His professional record includes 24 fights: 22 wins , and 2 losses. He won the WBA Interim Flyweight Title by TKO against Mexican Omar Salado on September 5, 2009...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
October 2, 2010 — January 4, 2011 2
60   Luis Concepcion
Luis Concepción
Luis Concepción is a professional boxer from Panama City. His nickname is "El Nica". The southpaw resides in the capital of Panama. His professional record includes 24 fights: 22 wins , and 2 losses. He won the WBA Interim Flyweight Title by TKO against Mexican Omar Salado on September 5, 2009...

January 4, 2011 — Present
I   Jean Piero Pérez
Jean Piero Pérez
Jean Piero Pérez is a Venezuelan professional boxer in the flyweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association flyweight champion.-Professional career:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
January 29, 2011 — Present

Super flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Gustavo Ballas September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981 0
2   Rafael Pedroza December 5, 1981 — April 8, 1982 0
3   Jiro Watanabe
Jiro Watanabe
is a Japanese former boxerWatanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World Super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.-Biography:...

April 8, 1982 — July 5, 1984s 6
4   Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest...

November 21, 1984 — 1992r 19
5   Katsuya Onizuka
Katsuya Onizuka
is a former WBA Super Flyweight champion from Kitakyushu, Japan. Onizuka was an extremely popular boxer in Japan, creating a boxing boom in Japan during the early 1990s along with Joichiro Tatsuyoshi.-Biography:...

April 10, 1992 — September 18, 1994 5
6   Hyung-Chul Lee September 18, 1994 — July 22, 1995 1
7   Alimi Goitia July 22, 1995 — August 24, 1996 3
8   Yokthai Sithoar August 24, 1996 — December 23, 1997 4
9   Satoshi Iida December 23, 1997 — December 23, 1998 2
10   Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesus Kiki Rojas is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.- Boxing career :...

December 23, 1998 — July 31, 1999 1
11   Hideki Todaka
Hideki Todaka
Hideki Todaka is a former professional boxer who fought in the super flyweight and bantamweight divisions...

July 31, 1999 — October 9, 2000 2
12   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

October 9, 2000 — March 11, 2001 0
13   Celes Kobayashi
Celes Kobayashi
Celes Kobayashi is a former professional boxer from Ibaraki, Japan. He is a former WBA Super flyweight champion.He got his ring name, "Celes," from a company he used to work for...

March 11, 2001 — March 9, 2002 1
14   Alexander Muñoz
Alexander Muñoz
Alexander Muñoz is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, nicknamed "El Explosivo."- Boxing career :...

March 9, 2002 — December 3, 2004 3
15   Martín Castillo
Martín Castillo
José Martín Castillo is a boxer from Mexico, who is more commonly known as Martín Castillo. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is a former World Boxing Association Superflyweight champion.- Amateur career :Castillo had an Amateur Record of 160-20...

December 3, 2004 — July 22, 2006 3
16   Nobuo Nashiro
Nobuo Nashiro
Nobuo Nashiro is a professional boxer in the Super flyweight division as well as the WBA super flyweight champion.- Childhood :...

July 22, 2006 — May 3, 2007 1
17   Alexander Munoz (2) May 3, 2007 — May 17, 2008 2
18   Cristian Mijares
Cristian Mijares
Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares is a Mexican professional boxer. Mijares is the former WBC, WBA and current IBF Super Flyweight Champion. Cristian is the older brother of undefeated prospect Ricardo Mijares and the nephew of world title contender Vicente Mijares.-Early life:Cristian comes from a...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
May 17, 2008 — November 1, 2008 1
I   Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
August 15, 2009 — October 15, 2010 2
19   Nobuo Nashiro (2) – {{small|Regular Champion}} Septermber 15, 2008 — May 8, 2010 2
20   Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
November 1, 2008— May 8, 2010 3
21   Hugo Cázares
Hugo Cázares
Hugo Fidel Cázares is a southpaw professional boxer in the Super flyweight division. He is the former WBA Super Flyweight champion and WBO Light Flyweight champion...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
May 8, 2010 — August 31, 2011 4
I   Drian Francisco
Drian Francisco
Adrian Francisco , more commonly known as Drian Francisco, is a Filipino professional boxer. Born in the province of Mindoro, Francisco currently resides in Agoncillo, Batangas...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
November 30, 2010 — Present
22   Tomonobu Shimizu
Tomonobu Shimizu
is a Japanese professional boxer who is the current WBA super flyweight champion in recess. He is an alumnus of the Tokyo University of Agriculture.-Biography:...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
August 31, 2011 — Present 0

Bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Joe Lynch
Joe Lynch (boxer)
Joseph Aloysius Lynch was an American Bantamweight boxer.-Pro career:He won the world title at that weight in 1920, defeating Pete Herman. Herman defeated him to regain the title the following year...

December 22, 1922 — March 21, 1924 1
2   Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein was an American boxer.He was World Bantamweight Champion in 1924, and was ranked the # 5 bantamweight of all time-Boxing career:...

March 21, 1924 — December 19, 1924 4
3   Eddie Martin December 19, 1924 — March 20, 1925 2
4   Charley Rosenberg March 20, 1925 — 1927r 2
5   Bud Taylor
Bud Taylor
Charles Bernard "Bud" Taylor was an American boxer from Terre Haute, Indiana. He was nicknamed the Terre Haute Terrier and the Blonde Terror of Terre Haute.-Pro Boxing Career:...

June 24, 1927 — January 24, 1928r 0
6   Panama Al Brown
Panama Al Brown
Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion. Brown was a native of the city of Colón....

June 18, 1929 — April 1935s 6
7   Sixto Escobar
Sixto Escobar
Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....

August 7, 1935 — August 26, 1935 0
8   Lou Salica August 26, 1935 — November 15, 1935 0
9   Sixto Escobar (2) November 15, 1935 — September 23, 1937 3
10   Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a former world bantamweight and NYSAC featherweight boxing champion...

September 23, 1937 — February 20, 1938 0
11   Sixto Escobar (3) February 20, 1938 — October 4, 1939r 1
12   Georgie Pace October 29, 1939 — September 24, 1940 0
13   Lou Salica (2) September 24, 1940 — August 7, 1942 5
14   Manuel Ortiz
Manuel Ortiz (boxer)
Manuel Ortiz was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. In 1996, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....

August 7, 1942 — January 6, 1947 14
15   Harold Dade
Harold Dade
Harold Dade was an American boxer and Bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:*Won the 1940 Chicago Golden Gloves Championship in the flyweight division by decision over Gene Evans...

January 6, 1947 — March 11, 1947 0
16   Manuel Ortiz (2) March 11, 1947 — May 31, 1950 4
17   Vic Toweel
Vic Toweel
Victor "Vic" Anthony Toweel was a South African boxer and former undisputed World bantamweight champion.Toweel was the first South African to hold a world title.-Personal:...

May 31, 1950 — November 15, 1952 3
18   Jimmy Carruthers
Jimmy Carruthers
James "Jimmy" William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Amateur career:...

November 15, 1952 — May 2, 1954r 3
19   Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen (boxer)
Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:...

September 19, 1954 — 1955s 0
20   Raul Macias
Raul Macias
Raúl Macías Guevara was a former Mexican boxer, actor, and boxing trainer. Born in the same Mexico City barrio as Rubén Olivares, Macías had always expressed pride at being Mexican...

March 9, 1955 — November 6, 1957 2
21   Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...

November 6, 1957 — July 8, 1959 0
22   Jose Becerra
Jose Becerra
Jesus "Hit man" Becerra is a retired Mexican boxer. He became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Early life:...

July 8, 1959 — August 30, 1960r 2
23   Eder Jofre
Eder Jofre
Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...

November 18, 1960 — May 18, 1965 8
24   Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

May 18, 1965 — February 27, 1968 4
25   Lionel Rose
Lionel Rose
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...

February 27, 1968 — August 22, 1969 3
26   Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

August 22, 1969 — October 16, 1970 2
27   Chucho Castillo
Chucho Castillo
Jesus Castillo Aguillera is a former Mexican boxer. Better known as Chucho Castillo, he was WBA and WBC Bantamweight champion in 1970....

October 16, 1970 — April 2, 1971 0
28   Rubén Olivares (2) April 2, 1971 — March 19, 1972 2
29   Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in the Bantamweight division.- Professional career :...

March 19, 1972 — July 29, 1972 0
30   Enrique Pinder July 29, 1972 — January 20, 1973 0
31   Romeo Anaya
Romeo Anaya
Romeo Anaya is a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is the former WBA World Bantamweight Champion.-Pro career:...

January 20, 1973 — November 3, 1973 2
32   Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor was a South African boxer who became the WBA Bantamweight champion in 1973.-Background:Taylor lived during the apartheid period; Born to Muriel and Joe Taylor on 15 July 1943. White South African...

November 3, 1973 — July 3, 1974 0
33   Soo-Hwan Hong July 3, 1974 — March 14, 1975 1
34   Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora Quiroz is a former Mexican boxer who fought from 1973 to 1980. Zamora was the silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He enjoyed a meteoric rise in his professional career...

March 14, 1975 — November 19, 1977 5
35   Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján was born in Córdoba, Argentina and lives in Mexico City where he writes, sings and runs workshops on creative writing. He has published poetry and children's literature , as well as a short story and a book that teaches a method of writing based on images...

November 19, 1977 — August 29, 1980 5
36   Julian Solís
Julian Solis
Julian Solís is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. He was born in the San Juan area of Río Piedras, but because of the closeness of his birthplace to Caguas, he often trained at the Bairoa Gym in Caguas...

August 29, 1980 — November 14, 1980 0
37   Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (boxer)
"Joltin'" Jeff Chandler is a former boxer. Chandler reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion from November 1980 to April 1984....

November 14, 1980 — April 7, 1984 9
38   Richie Sandoval
Richie Sandoval
Richard Sandoval was a Mexican-American professional boxer and is the former WBA Bantamweight Champion. Richard won a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games and was a U.S. Olympian during his amateur career...

April 7, 1984 — March 10, 1986 2
39   Gaby Canizales
Gaby Canizales
Jose 'Gaby' Canizales is a retired American boxer who won world championships in the bantamweight division. -Pro career:Canizales turned pro in 1979 and in 1983 challenged Jeff Chandler for the World Boxing Association bantamweight title but lost a decision. In 1986 he landed a shot at Richie...

March 10, 1986 — June 4, 1986 0
40   Bernardo Pinango
Bernardo Piñango
José Bernardo Piñango is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the Bantamweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he lost to Cuba's Juan Hernández on points ....

June 4, 1986 — 1987r 3
41   Takuya Muguruma
Takuya Muguruma (boxer)
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBA bantamweight champion. He is an alumnus of the Kinki University.Muguruma became interested in boxing at the age of a junior high school student. In high school, he belonged to the rugby club. As Muguruma was a slow runner, he was a substitute player...

March 29, 1987 — May 24, 1987 0
42   Chan-Yong Park May 24, 1987 — October 4, 1987 0
43   Wilfredo Vazquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

October 4, 1987 — May 9, 1988 1
44   Kaokor Galaxy
Kaokor Galaxy
Nirote Saenkham in Petchaboon, Thailand, is the twin brother of boxing star Khaosai Galaxy and twice world champion in his own right.Like his brother, Nirote Saenkham started his career in the sport of kickboxing and later switched to orthodox boxing...

May 9, 1988 — August 14, 1988 0
45   Sung-Kil Moon
Sung-Kil Moon
Moon Sung-Kil is a former two-division world champion boxer from South Korea. His name is also rendered Sung Kil Moon.- Amateur career :...

August 14, 1988 — July 9, 1989 2
46   Kaokor Galaxy (2) July 9, 1989 — October 18, 1989 0
47   Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....

October 18, 1989 — October 19, 1991 2
48   Israel Contreras
Israel Contreras
Israel Contreras is a former Venezuelan boxer who won the World Boxing Association bantamweight title. He had a supporting role in the Mel Gibson film Apocalypto.-Boxing career:...

October 19, 1991 — March 15, 1992 0
49   Eddie Cook March 15, 1992 — October 9, 1992 0
50   Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha is a former Colombian bantamweight boxer best known to win the WBA and later the WBO title as a pro.-Amateur:...

October 9, 1992 — October 23, 1993 2
51   Junior Jones
Junior Jones
Junior Jones is an American former professional boxer. Known by his nickname of "Poison", he won world championships at bantamweight and super bantamweight, and is best remembered for his two victories over then-undefeated Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.-Amateur career:Jones won two New York...

October 23, 1993 — April 22, 1994 1
52   John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson was an American bantamweight boxer. He briefly held a championship in that division.- Professional career :...

April 22, 1994 — July 16, 1994 0
53   Daorung Chuvatana
Daorung Chuvatana
Daorung Chuvatana also known as Surapol Sidangnoi is a retired boxer who won World titles in the Bantamweight weight divisions....

July 16, 1994 — September 17, 1995 2
54   Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veerapol Sahaprom is a former WBC and WBA Bantamweight Champion. He is from the Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand...

September 17, 1995 — January 28, 1996 0
55   Nana Konadu
Nana Konadu
Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah is a retired boxer who won World titles in two different weight divisions. Konadu turned pro in 1985 and in 1989 won the WBC Super Flyweight Title by winning a decision over Gilberto Roman. He lost the belt in his first defense to Sung Kil Moon in 1990 and lost a rematch to...

January 28, 1996 — October 27, 1996 0
56   Daorung Chuvatana (2) October 27, 1996 — June 21, 1997 1
57   Nana Konadu (2) June 21, 1997 — December 5, 1998 1
58   Johnny Tapia
Johnny Tapia
John Lee "Johnny" Tapia is a Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion.-Childhood:Johnny Tapia's life began with tragedy. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. At the age of 8, his mother Virginia was kidnapped, raped, hung, repeatedly stabbed, and...

December 5, 1998 — June 26, 1999 0
59   Paulie Ayala
Paulie Ayala
Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...

June 26, 1999 — August 7, 2001s 3
60   Eidy Moya
Eidy Moya
Eidy Moya is a retired boxer who won World titles in the bantamweight weight division.-Early life:Moya's natural boxing skills showed early in his life when older boys persuade him to brawl in the streets. The winner was awarded with a coke and Venezuelan home-made cookie named "Catalina"...

October 14, 2001 — April 19, 2002 1
61   Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl , aka Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion...

April 19, 2002 — October 11, 2004r 3
62   Wladimir Sidorenko
Wladimir Sidorenko
Volodymyr Sydorenko, or Vladimir Sidorenko, is a professional boxer in the bantamweight division. He is the former WBA world bantamweight champion, and twin brother of Valeriy Sydorenko.-Amateur career:...

February 26, 2005 — May 31, 2008 6
63   Anselmo Moreno
Anselmo Moreno
Anselmo Moreno is a professional boxer from El Martillo San Miguelito, Republic of Panama.He is the current WBA Bantamweight Super Champion. In August 2011, Moreno signed a four fight promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions.-Bantamweight:...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
May 31, 2008 — Present 7
64   Koki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
December 26, 2010 — Present 0
I   Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz Dominguez is a Mexican professional boxer in the bantamweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association bantamweight champion.-Professional career:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
January 22, 2011 — Present 0

Super bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Soo-Hwan Hong January 26, 1977 — May 7, 1978 1
2   Ricardo Cardona
Ricardo Cardona
Ricardo Cardona is a Latino chef in New York City who is the executive chef of Lua, Sofrito and Hudson River Cafe as well as the chef for the New York Yankees and their opponents during home games at Yankee Stadium.-Career:...

May 7, 1978 — May 4, 1980 5
3   Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph is a former American boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:Randolph had an outstanding amateur career...

May 4, 1980 — August 9, 1980 0
4   Sergio Victor Palma August 9, 1980 — June 12, 1982 5
5   Leo Cruz
Leo Cruz
Leonardo Cruz , better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.-Personal:...

June 12, 1982 — February 22, 1984 3
6   Loris Stecca
Loris Stecca
Loris Stecca Loris Stecca Loris Stecca (born March 30, 1960 is an Italian former world champion boxer. His brother Maurizio is also a former boxer and held the WBO world Featherweight title shortly during the late 1990s.-Professional career:...

February 22, 1984 — May 26, 1984 0
7   Victor Callejas
Victor Callejas
Victor Callejas is a Puerto Rican former boxer who was World Junior Featherweight champion. A native of Guaynabo, Callejas as a child wanted to be a singer, and his childhood friend, Orvil Miller, wanted to be a boxer. As it turned out, however, it was Callejas who was a boxer and Miller who...

May 26, 1984 — 1986r 2
8   Louie Espinoza
Louie Espinoza
Louie Espinoza is an American boxer in the Featherweight division. He now resides in Chandler, Arizona....

January 11, 1987 — November 28, 1987 2
9   Julio Gervacio
Julio Gervacio
Julio Antonio Gervacio is a former boxer and Super Bantamweight champion titleholder from the Dominican Republic.As a child, he relocated to Puerto Rico. He always expressed pride in his national background; and he considered himself a Dominican-Puerto Rican...

November 28, 1987 — February 27, 1988 0
10   Bernardo Pinango
Bernardo Piñango
José Bernardo Piñango is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the Bantamweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he lost to Cuba's Juan Hernández on points ....

February 27, 1988 — May 28, 1988 0
11   Juan Jose Estrada
Juan Jose Estrada
Juan José Estrada was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is a former WBC International and the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

May 28, 1988 — November 11, 1989 3
12   Jesús Salud
Jesus Salud
Jesus Salud Born 3 May 1963 is an American professional boxer of Filipino descent. Originally from Sinait in the Philippines, he resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. He won the World Boxing Association super bantamweight title by disqualification on December 11, 1989 in a bout against Juan Jose Estrada....

November 11, 1989 — 1990r 0
13   Luis Enrique Mendoza September 11, 1990 — October 7, 1991 4
14   Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in two weight divisions.- Professional career :...

October 7, 1991 — March 27, 1992 0
15   Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

March 27, 1992 — May 13, 1995 9
16   Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño Coloso is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who twice won the world title.-External links:*...

May 13, 1995 — 1998r 7
17   Enrique Sánchez
Enrique Sánchez
Enrique José Sánchez León was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division...

February 8, 1998 — December 12, 1998 0
18   Néstor Garza
Néstor Garza
Néstor Gabriel Garza is a Mexican boxer in the Light Welterweight division. He is a former Mexican National, WBO NABO, and the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

December 12, 1998 — March 4, 2000 2
19   Clarence Adams
Clarence Adams
Clarence Richard Adams is a former boxer. He has won a world title in the Super Bantamweight weight division.- Professional career :...

March 4, 2000 — 2001s 2
20   Yober Ortega November 17, 2001 — February 21, 2002 0
21   Yoddamrong Sithyodthong February 21, 2002 — May 18, 2002 0
22   Osamu Sato May 18, 2002 — October 9, 2002 0
23     Salim Medjkoune October 9, 2002 — July 4, 2003 1
24   Mahyar Monshipour
Mahyar Monshipour
Mahyar Monshipour is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006...

July 4, 2003 — March 18, 2006 5
25   Somsak Sithchatchawal
Somsak Sithchatchawal
Somsak Sithchatchawal is a professional boxer in the super bantamweight division.In March 2006, Sithchatchawal took part in what later won fight of the year when he challenged WBA Super Bantamweight champion Mahyar Monshipour. Sithchatchawal dropped Monshipour in the first round, and won via TKO...

March 18, 2006 — October 4, 2006 0
26   Celestino Caballero
Celestino Caballero
Celestino "Pelenchin" Caballero is a professional boxer from Panama. He is the former undisputed Super Bantamweight WBA & IBF and Super Champion for the WBA. On October 14th, 2011, Celestino became the new WBA Featherweight champion of the world after beating Jonathan Barros at Luna Park, Argentina...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
October 4, 2006 — Present 8
27   Ricardo Cordoba
Ricardo Cordoba
Ricardo Alberto Cordoba Mosque, more commonly known as Ricardo Cordoba, is a Panamanian professional boxer who fights in the super bantamweight division.-Professional career:...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
November 21, 2008 — March 21, 2009 0
28   Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne is a retired Irish professional boxer and a former WBA, and European super bantamweight champion.On Saturday 21 March 2009, Dunne waged the war that he would be best remembered for and defeated Ricardo Cordoba in the 11th round to become the WBA super bantamweight champion in a fight...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
March 21, 2009 — September 26, 2009 0
29   Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Chalermwong Udomna , who boxes as Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, is a professional boxer from Thailand who fights in the super bantamweight division...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
September 26, 2009 — October 2, 2010 3
30   Ryol Li Lee
Ryol Li Lee
Ryol Li Lee or Retsuri Lee is a professional boxer from Japan, born on May 20, 1982. He was born in Kadoma, Osaka, and lives in Yokohama, Kanagawa.-Biography:Lee won his first fight by third round KO in 2005...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
October 2, 2010 — January 31, 2010 0
31   Akifumi Shimoda
Akifumi Shimoda
is a super bantamweight boxer from Japan and the former world champion of WBA at Super bantamweight. He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, grew up in Kure city, and currently lives in Tokyo...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
January 31, 2010 — July 9, 2011 0
32   Rico Ramos
Rico Ramos
Rico Dashon Ramos is an American Super Bantamweight boxer of Puerto Rican descent. He is the current WBA world super bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
July 9, 2011 — Present 0
I   Guillermo Rigondeaux – {{small|Interim Champion}} November 13, 2010 — Present 1

Featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

September 12, 1927 — February 10, 1928 0
2   Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...

February 10, 1928 — September 28, 1928 0
3   Andre Routis
Andre Routis
Andre Routis was a French professional boxer. He fought 86 times between 1919 and 1929; winning 54 , losing 25 and drawing 7. After a victory over Tony Canzoneri he held the world featherweight title from 1928 to 1929...

September 28, 1928 — September 23, 1929 1
4   Battling Battalino
Battling Battalino
Christopher Battaglia better known as Battling Battalino, was an American former world featherweight boxing champion...

September 23, 1929 — January 27, 1932r 0
5   Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul was an a former world featherweight boxing champion from Buffalo, NY. He was inducted into the first class of Buffalo’s Ring No. 44 Boxing Hall of Fame and in 2003 to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. He won the world featherweight championship in May 1932, defeating Johnny Pena...

May 26, 1932 — January 13, 1933 0
6   Freddie Miller
Freddie Miller (boxer)
Freddie Miller was an American boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio. Freddie Miller was one of the very best featherweight boxers of the 1930s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years....

January 13, 1933 — May 11, 1936 12
7   Petey Sarron
Petey Sarron
Petey Sarron was a member of the Olympic Team at flyweight in boxing for the United States during the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...

May 11, 1936 — October 29, 1937 2
8   Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...

October 29, 1937 — 1937r 0
9   Joey Archibald
Joey Archibald
Joey Archibald was the former world boxing featherweight champion. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island....

April 18, 1939 — April 1940s 0
10   Petey Scalzo
Petey Scalzo
Petey Scalzo is an American boxer from Brooklyn, New York.Petey Scalzo fought Frankie Covelli for the National Boxing Association World featherweight title at Griffith Stadium Petey beat Covelli by TKO....

May 15, 1940 — July 1, 1941 2
11   Richie Lemos
Richie Lemos
Richie Lemos was a Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division...

July 1, 1941 — November 18, 1941 0
12   Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson (Boxer)
Jackie Wilson was an American boxer born in South Carolina but raised and listed from Pittsburgh. He was undefeated in his first 6 fights with a record of 4-0-2....

November 18, 1941 — January 18, 1943 1
13   Jackie Callura
Jackie Callura
John "Jackie" Callura was a Canadian featherweight boxer.He was born and died in Hamilton, Ontario,.Callura won the national featherweight title in 1931 and was a member of the 1932 Summer Olympics team....

January 18, 1943 — August 16, 1943 1
14   Phil Terranova
Phil Terranova
Phil Terranova was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion. Terranova won the crown when he KO'ed Jackie Callura on August 16, 1943, and lost the belt when he was outpointed by Sal Bartolo on March 10, 1944.Terranova retired with a record of 67 wins , 21 losses and 11 draws...

August 16, 1943 — March 10, 1944 1
15   Sal Bartolo
Sal Bartolo
Salvatore Interbartolo, better known as Sal Bartolo was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion.-Amateur career:...

March 10, 1944 — June 7, 1946 3
16   Willie Pep
Willie Pep
Guglielmo Papaleo was an American boxer who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts...

June 7, 1946 — October 29, 1948 2
17   Sandy Saddler
Sandy Saddler
Joseph "Sandy" Saddler was an American boxer born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, and also held the junior lightweight crown. Over his twelve-year career , Saddler scored 103 knockouts. He was stopped only once, in his second pro fight, by Jock Leslie. ...

October 29, 1948 — February 11, 1949 2
18   Willie Pep (2) February 11, 1949 — September 8, 1950 3
19   Sandy Saddler (2) September 8, 1950 — 1953r 1
20   Sandy Saddler (3) February 25, 1955 — 1956r 1
21   Sugar Ramos
Sugar Ramos
Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...

March 21, 1963 — September 26, 1964 3
22   Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Samuel Saldivar García was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion...

September 26, 1964 — 1967r 7
23   Raul Rojas
Raul Rojas
Raul Rojas is a retired Mexican American featherweight boxer.He accumulated a record of 38 wins , 7 losses and 2 draws. On March 28, 1968, Rojas defeated Enrique Higgins to win the WBA Featherweight title, which Vicente Saldivar had vacated after announcing his retirement. He lost the title on...

March 28, 1968 — September 27, 1968 0
24   Shozo Saijo
Shozo Saijo
Shozo Saijo is a former professional boxer from Saitama, Japan. He is a former WBA featherweight champion.- Biography :...

September 27, 1968 — September 2, 1971 5
25   Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez is a former professional boxer who fought in the featherweight division. Gomez won the WBA world featherweight title in 1971.-Professional career:...

September 2, 1971 — August 19, 1972 1
26   Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel is a retired Panamanian boxer.-Career:Making his professional debut as a teenager in 1966, Marcel built up a record of 31-3-1, which included a second round knockout of Bernardo Caraballo, who had previously fought Fighting Harada and Éder Jofre for world titles, and a tenth round...

August 19, 1972 — February 16, 1974r 4
27   Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

July 9, 1974 — November 23, 1974 0
28   Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...

November 23, 1974 — 1976r 4
29   Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega is a former professional boxer. The highlight of his career came in 1977, when he won the WBA World featherweight title.-Professional career:...

January 15, 1977 — December 17, 1977 1
30   Cecilio Lastra
Cecilio Lastra
Cecilio Lastra is a former Spanish professional boxer. He fought 54 times between 1975 and 1982; winning 39 , losing 13 and drawing 2. The highlight of Lastra's career came in 1977 when he won the WBA world featherweight title against Rafael Ortega...

December 17, 1977 — April 15, 1978 0
31   Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too...

April 15, 1978 — June 8, 1985 19
32   Barry McGuigan
Barry McGuigan
Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...

June 8, 1985 — June 23, 1986 2
33   Steve Cruz June 23, 1986 — March 6, 1987 0
34   Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza Betancourt was a boxer in the featherweight division from Venezuela.- Amateur career :Esparragoza represented Venezuela as a Featherweight at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.*1st round bye...

March 6, 1987 — March 30, 1991 7
35   Yong-Kyun Park
Yong-Kyun Park
Yong-Kyun Park is a former Korean boxer. He was the Lineal & WBA Featherweight Champion from 1991-1993.-References:...

March 30, 1991 — December 4, 1993 8
36   Eloy Rojas
Eloy Rojas
Eloy David Rojas Leandro was a professional boxer in the Featherweight division.Rojas turned pro in 1986 and won the Lineal & WBA Featherweight Titles in 1993 by defeating Yong-Kyun Park by decision. He defended the titles six times before losing them to Wilfredo Vazquez in 1996 via TKO in a...

December 4, 1993 — May 18, 1996 6
37   Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

May 18, 1996 — 1997s 4
38   Freddie Norwood
Freddie Norwood
Freddie Norwood is a boxer in the lightweight division. Known as "Lil Hagler", Norwood defeated Antonio Cermeño to win the WBA Featherweight Title title in 1998. He successfully defended his title eight times before losing his title by a controversial 11th round TKO to Smoke Gainer...

April 3, 1998 — 1998s 2
39   Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño Coloso is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who twice won the world title.-External links:*...

October 3, 1998 — May 29, 1999 1
40   Freddie Norwood (2) May 29, 1999 — September 9, 2000 3
41   Derrick Gainer
Derrick Gainer
Derrick "Smoke" Gainer is a US born boxer who started out in the featherweight division and now fights in the lightweight division. In 2000, he defeated Freddie Norwood to win the World Boxing Association featherweight title and after four defenses lost to Juan Manuel Márquez, who became super...

September 9, 2000 — November 1, 2003 3
42   Juan Manuel Marquez
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
November 1, 2003 — 2005s 3
43   Chris John
Chris John (boxer)
Yohannes Christian John is an Indonesian professional boxer, and the current WBA featherweight champion....

– {{small|Regular Champion/Became Super Champion}}
November 1, 2003 — Present 15
44   Yuriorkis Gamboa – {{small|Unified Champion}} July 23, 2009 — Present 3
45   Jonathan Victor Barros
Jonathan Victor Barros
Jonathan Victor Barros is an Argentine featherweight boxer and is the current WBA World featherweight champion.-IBF featherweight championship:...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
December 4, 2010 — Present 1

Super featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....

November 18, 1921 — May 30, 1923 4
2   Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein, also known as "John Dodick," "Kid Murphy," and Young Murphy," was an American boxer. He was World Junior lightweight Champion, with the title taken from and later lost to Johnny Dundee Jack bernstein exposed zionists and was murdered by mossad....

May 30, 1923 — December 17, 1923 1
3   Johnny Dundee (2) December 17, 1923 — June 20, 1924 0
4   Steve Sullivan June 20, 1924 — December 15, 1924 2
5   Mike Ballerino December 15, 1924 — December 2, 1925 3
6   Tod Morgan
Tod Morgan
Albert Morgan Pilkington, better known as "Tod Morgan," , was an American boxer.-Background:According to the April 7, 1927 Spokane Spokesman-Review, Morgan was born in Dungeness, WA--which is adjacent to Sequim...

December 2, 1925 — December 20, 1929 12
7   Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

December 20, 1929 — July 15, 1931 1
8   Eligio
List of WBA world champions is a table showing the world champions certificated by
World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 (WBA). This list includes champions certificated by the National Boxing Association (NBA).

r – Champion relinquished title.

s – Champion stripped of title.
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Minimumweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

January 10, 1988 — 1989r 1
2   Bong-Jun Kim April 16, 1989 — February 2, 1991 5
3   Hi-Yong Choi February 2, 1991 — October 14, 1992 4
4   Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi is a former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion.- Professional career :...

October 14, 1992 — February 10, 1993 0
5   Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin is a Thai boxer. Chana and his brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles ....

February 10, 1993 — December 2, 1995 8
6   Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw....

December 2, 1995 — November 13, 1998 5
7   Ricardo López November 13, 1998 — July 1999r 0
8   Noel Arambulet
Noel Arambulet
Noel Arambulet is a flyweight boxer.- Professional career :Nicknamed "El Verdugo", Arambulet turned pro in 1996 and captured the vacant WBA minimumweight title with a decision win over Joma Gamboa in 1999. He defended the belt once before being stripped of the title for not making weight for a...

October 9, 1999 — August 20, 2000 1
9   Joma Gamboa August 20, 2000 — December 6, 2000 0
10   Keitaro Hoshino
Keitaro Hoshino
Keitaro Hoshino is a flyweight boxer.- Professional career :Hoshino turned pro in 1988 and captured the WBA minimumweight title with a decision win over Joma Gamboa in 2000. He defended the belt once before losing it by split decision to Chana Porpaoin in 2001...

December 6, 2000 — April 16, 2001 0
11   Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin
Chana Porpaoin is a Thai boxer. Chana and his brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles ....

April 16, 2001 — August 25, 2001 0
12   Yutaka Niida August 25, 2001 — October 19, 2001r 0
13   Keitaro Hoshino (2) January 29, 2002 — July 29, 2002 0
14   Noel Arambulet (2) July 29, 2002 — July 2, 2004s 2
15   Yutaka Niida (2) July 3, 2004 — September 15, 2008 7
16   Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Kwanthai Sithmorseng
Kwanthai Sithmorseng is a professional boxer from Thailand. He fights in the strawweight division and is the reigning WBA Minimumweight World champion. He captured the title on November 5, 2010 by defeating Pigmy Kokietgym....

November 5, 2010 — April 19, 2011 0
I   Sammy Gutiérrez
Sammy Gutiérrez
Sammy Gutiérrez , is a Mexican professional boxer in the Strawweight division.Guty was born in San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla, Mexico. On October 23, 2010, he became the interim WBA Minimumweight champion by beating Columbian Luis Carrillo by 3rd round TKO.-References:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
October 23, 2010 — Present 0
17   Muhammad Rachman
Muhammad Rachman
Mohammad Rachman Sawaluddin bin Suhaimat , is a professional boxer."The Rock Breaker" won the IBF World Strawweight Championship by a split decision against Daniel Reyes of Colombia...

April 19, 2011 — July 31, 2011 0
18   Pornsawan Porpramook
Pornsawan Porpramook
Pornsawan Porpramook is a Thai professional boxer in the minimumweight division and is a former World Boxing Association strawweight champion. Pornsawan has been also rated in the top ten by Ring Magazine at minimumweight until as of October 2011....

July 30, 2011 — Present 0

Light flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios is a judge on the New York Supreme Court for Queens County. Prior to sitting on the Supreme Court, Judge Rios served on the New York City Civil Court and the Housing Court. Judge Rios holds a B.S. degree from City College of New York, a M.A. degree from New York University, and a law...

August 23, 1975 — July 2, 1976 1
2   Juan Antonio Gúzman July 2, 1976 — October 10, 1976 0
3   Yoko Gushiken
Yoko Gushiken
was a Ryukyuan professional boxer from 1974-1981. His professional record is 23-1 and he held the title of WBA Light Flyweight champion 1976-1981.-Biography:...

October 10, 1976 — March 8, 1981 13
4   Pedro Flores
Pedro Flores (boxer)
Pedro Flores is a former Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Light Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

March 8, 1981 — July 19, 1981 0
5   Hwan-Jin Kim July 19, 1981 — December 16, 1981 1
6   Katsuo Tokashiki
Katsuo Tokashiki
Katsuo Tokashiki is an Okinawan former WBA Light flyweight champion. He currently works as an actor and television persona, and runs own boxing gym in Tokyo, Japan.- Childhood & Early Career :...

December 16, 1981 — July 10, 1983 5
7   Lupe Madera
Lupe Madera
Lupe Madera was a Mexican professional boxer. He held the title of World Boxing Association junior flyweight champion 1983–1984.-Career:...

July 10, 1983 — May 19, 1984 1
8   Francisco Quiróz
Francisco Quiroz
Francisco Quiroz was a WBA Lightweight champion.- Pro career :Quiroz turned pro in 1978 and captured the WBA light flyweight title with a KO win over Lupe Madera in 1984. He defended the belt once before losing a narrow decision to Joey Olivo in 1985...

May 19, 1984 — March 29, 1985 1
9   Joey Olivo March 29, 1985 — December 8, 1985 1
10   Myung-Woo Yuh
Myung-Woo Yuh
Yuh Myung-woo is a South Korean former 2-time WBA light flyweight boxing champion...

December 8, 1985 — December 17, 1991 17
11   Hiroki Ioka
Hiroki Ioka
Hiroki Ioka is a former WBC Minimumweight and WBA Lightweight champion. He was the first ever WBC Minimumweight champion, winning the title immediately after the minimumweight division was created....

December 17, 1991 — November 18, 1992 2
12   Myung-Woo Yuh (2) November 18, 1992 — 1993r 1
13   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

October 21, 1993 — February 4, 1995 3
14   Hi-Yong Choi February 4, 1995 — January 13, 1996 1
15   Carlos Murillo January 13, 1996 — May 21, 1996 1
16   Keiji Yamaguchi May 21, 1996 — December 3, 1996 1
17   Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan December 3, 1996 — July 2000s 5
18   Beibis Mendoza
Beibis Mendoza
Beibis Antonio Mendoza is a professional boxer from Colombia. He is a former WBA light-flyweight champion.- Amateur career :Mendoza was a member of the 1996 Colombian Olympic Team as a Light Flyweight...

August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001 0
19   Rosendo Alvarez
Rosendo Álvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw....

March 3, 2001 — October 2, 2004s 3
20   Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez is a southpaw boxer. Fighting in the flyweight division, his record is 24-1 . He is currently the WBA world flyweight interim champion....

April 29, 2005 — 2006r 3
21   Kōki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

August 2, 2006 — January 18, 2007r 1
22   Juan Carlos Reveco
Juan Carlos Reveco
Juan Carlos Reveco is an Argentine professional boxer. He is currently the WBA light-flyweight champion.-Professional career:Reveco turned professional in 2004...

June 22, 2007 — December 8, 2007 1
23   Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum born January 31, 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Asloum is the former WBA light flyweight world champion.- Olympic results :...

December 8, 2007 — 2008 (retired) 1
24   Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
June 5, 2009 — Present (promoted to Super Champion August 8, 2010) 4
25   Giovanni Segura
Giovanni Segura
Giovani Segura is a Mexican professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He is The Ring light flyweight champion and former WBA and WBO champion. Ring Magazine currently rates Segura as the number nine pound-for-pound boxer in the world.-Professional career:Segura made his professional...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
July 17, 2010 — Present (promoted to Regular Champion August 8, 2010) 0
I   Roman Gonzalez
Román González (boxer)
Román Alberto González Luna is a Nicaraguan professional boxer who is the current WBA light flyweight champion and is the former WBA minimumweight champion.-Career:...

– {{small|Interim Champion}}
October 24, 2010 — Present 0

Flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Fidel La Barba
Fidel La Barba
Fidel LaBarba was a United States boxer and sportswriter. He was born in New York City, but grew up in Los Angeles, California. As a boy he sold newspapers and learned to fight on street corners. LaBarba was discovered at age 14 by manager George Blake who embarked him on an amateur career...

August 22, 1925 — October 22, 1927 1
2   Pinky Silverberg
Pinky Silverberg
Pinky Silverberg was a boxer in the flyweight division who briefly held the National Boxing Association flyweight title in 1927. Silverberg won his the title vacated by Fidel LaBarba, who had recently retired, by defeating Ruby Bradley on October 22, 1927, when Bradley was disqualified due to a...

October 22, 1927 — 1927s 0
3   Frenchy Belanger December 19, 1927 — February 6, 1928 0
4   Frankie Genaro
Frankie Genaro
Frank "Frankie" Genaro was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion...

February 6, 1928 — March 2, 1929 3
5   Emile Pladner March 2, 1929 — April 18, 1929 3
6   Frankie Genaro (2) April 18, 1929 — October 26, 1931 9
7   Victor Perez
Victor Perez
Victor "Young" Perez was a Sephardic Jew born in French Tunisia, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. He was born to Khmaïssa Perez a household goods salesman and Khaïlou René Perez. He was raised along with his four siblings in Dar-El Berdgana, the Jewish quarter of Tunis...

October 26, 1931 — October 31, 1932 0
8 Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (boxer)
For the Scottish flyweight boxer called Jackie Brown, see Jackie Brown .Jackie Brown was a flyweight boxer, who was British and European flyweight champion, and was also recognised by the National Boxing Association as the World flyweight champion.-Professional career:He had his first professional...

October 31, 1932 — September 9, 1935 4
9 Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced...

September 9, 1935 — June 29, 1938s 1
10 Peter Kane
Peter Kane
Peter Kane was one of England's greatest flyweight boxers and a world champion in the 1930s. Kane was born in Heywood, Lancashire, on February 28, 1918, but grew up in the town of Golborne, Lancashire, after his family moved there before his first birthday.-Boxing style:He was a two-fisted...

September 22, 1938 — June 19, 1943 1
11 Jackie Paterson
Jackie Paterson
Jackie Paterson was a Scottish boxer who was world flyweight boxing champion. He was also British champion at flyweight and bantamweight.-Early life:...

June 19, 1943 — July 31, 1947s 1
12 Rinty Monaghan
Rinty Monaghan
John Joseph "Rinty" Monaghan was a former world flyweight boxing champion from Belfast. He became famous in the post-war period, eventually rising to become undisputed world champion and a hero to many people in his home city....

March 23, 1948 — March 30, 1950r 1
13 Terry Allen
Terry Allen (boxer)
Terry Allen was an English flyweight boxer. During his career, he became British, Commonwealth, European and World flyweight champion.- Family :...

April 25, 1950 — August 1, 1950 0
14   Dado Marino August 1, 1950 — May 19, 1952 1
15   Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He won the world flyweight title in 1952, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win a world title.- Childhood and Early Career :...

May 19, 1952 — November 26, 1954 4
16   Pascual Pérez November 26, 1954 — April 16, 1960 9
17   Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch , a.k.a. Mana Seedokbuab was a professional Thai boxer and three time world flyweight champion. He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on April 16, 1960 when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumphini Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for the world flyweight championship...

April 16, 1960 — October 10, 1962 1
18   Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

October 10, 1962 — January 12, 1963 0
19   Pone Kingpetch (2) January 12, 1963 — September 18, 1963 0
20   Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara was a Japanese world-champion flyweight boxer from Fussa, Tokyo. His record includes 62 wins , 5 losses, and 1 draw. He was the first world flyweight champion certified by the World Boxing Council, and he was also certified by the World Boxing Association and The Ring...

September 18, 1963 — January 23, 1964 0
21   Pone Kingpetch (3) January 23, 1964 — April 23, 1965 0
22   Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni , was an Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer who fought between 1957 to 1969. Burruni was born in Alghero , and fought mostly in Europe.-Amateur career:...

April 23, 1965 — November 1965s 0
23   Horacio Accavallo
Horacio Accavallo
Horacio Enrique Accavallo was an Argentine flyweight boxer who fought from 1956 until 1967. He retired with a record of 75 wins , 2 losses and 6 draws....

March 1, 1966 — October 1, 1968r 3
24   Hiroyuki Ebihara (2) March 30, 1969 — October 19, 1969 0
25   Bernabe Villacampo October 19, 1969 — April 5, 1970 0
26   Berkrerk Chartvanchai April 5, 1970 — October 22, 1970 0
27   Masao Ohba
Masao Ohba
Masao Ohba was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He was the WBA flyweight champion at the time of his death.- Childhood and Early Career :...

October 22, 1970 — 1973r 0
28   Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi a.k.a. Chartchai Laemfapha is a former professional Thai boxer and WBC World champion in Flyweight division....

May 17, 1973 — October 18, 1974 2
29   Susumu Hanagata October 18, 1974 — April 1, 1975 0
30   Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria is a retired professional boxer from the Philippines. He's also a former WBA and WBC flyweight champion.- Biography :Salavarria made his professional debut in 1963. He captured the WBC flyweight title with a TKO win over Chartchai Chionoi in 1970...

April 1, 1975 — February 27, 1976 1
31   Alfonso Lopez February 27, 1976 — October 2, 1976 1
32   Guty Espadas
Guty Espadas
Guty Espadas was a Mexican professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council Flyweight Championship. He is also the Father of former World Champion Guty Espadas Jr.-WBC Flyweight Championship:...

October 2, 1976 — August 12, 1978 4
33   Betulio González
Betulio González
Betulio Segundo González is a former boxer from Venezuela, who is considered a national hero in Venezuela. He is considered by many to be Venezuela's greatest world champion in boxing history...

August 12, 1978 — November 17, 1979 3
34   Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra Castillo is a former Panamanian boxer who won the World Boxing Association flyweight championship. He was born on 1953-02-23 in Colón, Panama.-Pro career:...

November 17, 1979 — February 17, 1980 0
35   Tae-Shik Kim
Tae-Shik Kim
Tae-Shik Kim is a former boxer from South Korea.-Pro career:In 1980, Kim became the WBA Flyweight champion with a 2 round KO win over Luis Ibarra...

February 17, 1980 — December 13, 1980 1
36   Peter Mathebula December 13, 1980 — March 28, 1981 0
37   Santos Benigno Laciar March 28, 1981 — June 6, 1981 0
38   Luis Ibarra (2) June 6, 1981 — September 26, 1981 0
39   Juan Herrera
Juan Herrera
Juan Herrera is a retired Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

September 26, 1981 — May 1, 1982 1
40   Santos Benigno Laciar (2) May 1, 1982 — July 19, 1985r 9
41   Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata is a former boxer who was a two time world Jr. Flyweight champion and a one time world flyweight champion. Zapata is a Panamanian....

October 5, 1985 — February 13, 1987 5
42   Fidel Bassa
Fidel Bassa
Fidel Bassa, born 18 December 1962 in El Reten, Colombia, is a former professional boxer.He was WBA Flyweight Champion from 3 February 1987 until 30 September 1989...

February 13, 1987 — September 30, 1989 6
43   Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesus Kiki Rojas is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.- Boxing career :...

September 30, 1989 — March 10, 1990 0
44   Yul-Woo Lee March 10, 1990 — July 29, 1990 0
45   Leopard Tamakuma July 29, 1990 — March 14, 1991 1
46   Elvis Álvarez
Elvis Álvarez
Elvis Álvarez was professional boxer in the flyweight division.- Boxing career :...

March 14, 1991 — June 1, 1991 1
47   Yong-Kang Kim
Yong-Kang Kim
Yong-Kang Kim is a former professional boxer in the flyweight division.- Pro career :...

June 1, 1991 — September 26, 1992 2
48   Aquiles Guzman
Aquiles Guzman
Aquiles Guzman is a former Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Professional career :...

September 26, 1992 — December 15, 1992 0
49   David Griman
David Griman
David Griman is a former Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Amateur highlights :...

December 15, 1992 — February 13, 1994 2
50   Saen Sor Ploenchit February 13, 1994 — November 24, 1996 9
51   Jose Bonilla
Jose Bonilla (boxer)
Jose Bonilla , born in El Tigre, Anzoátegui) was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Professional career :...

November 24, 1996 — May 29, 1998 3
52   Hugo Rafael Soto
Hugo Rafael Soto
Hugo Rafael Soto is a former professional boxer.Fighting in the flyweight and super flyweight divisions, Soto had his first professional fight in 1988. He built up a record of 39-1-2 to earn a fight with WBC flyweight champion Yuri Arbachakov, but lost by an eighth round knockout...

May 29, 1998 — March 13, 1999 0
53   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

March 13, 1999 — September 3, 1999 0
54   Sornpichai Kratingdaenggym September 3, 1999 — August 5, 2000 1
55   Eric Morel
Eric Morel
Eric Arturo Morel is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion.- Amateur career :...

August 5, 2000 — December 6, 2003 5
56   Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo "Lencho" Parra is a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion....

December 6, 2003 — March 19, 2007 5
57   Takefumi Sakata
Takefumi Sakata
is a Japanese boxer in the flyweight division and a former WBA flyweight champion.Sakata was the premier boxer in the Kyoei boxing gym before the arrival of Kōki Kameda in 2005...

March 19, 2007 — December 31, 2008 4
58   Denkaosan Kaovichit
Denkaosan Kaovichit
Denkaosan Kaovichit a.k.a. Denkaosan Redbull Gym. a.k.a. Denkaosan Singwangcha is a professional boxer from Thailand and reigning WBA Flyweight World champion. He is also a Muslim....

December 31, 2008 — February 7, 2010 2
59   Daiki Kameda
Daiki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the flyweight division. He is the former WBA Flyweight Champion. Kameda has made it his custom to sing a song for the audience after each of his victories.-Personal life:...

February 7, 2010 — January 4, 2011 2
I   Luis Concepcion
Luis Concepción
Luis Concepción is a professional boxer from Panama City. His nickname is "El Nica". The southpaw resides in the capital of Panama. His professional record includes 24 fights: 22 wins , and 2 losses. He won the WBA Interim Flyweight Title by TKO against Mexican Omar Salado on September 5, 2009...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
October 2, 2010 — January 4, 2011 2
60   Luis Concepcion
Luis Concepción
Luis Concepción is a professional boxer from Panama City. His nickname is "El Nica". The southpaw resides in the capital of Panama. His professional record includes 24 fights: 22 wins , and 2 losses. He won the WBA Interim Flyweight Title by TKO against Mexican Omar Salado on September 5, 2009...

January 4, 2011 — Present
I   Jean Piero Pérez
Jean Piero Pérez
Jean Piero Pérez is a Venezuelan professional boxer in the flyweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association flyweight champion.-Professional career:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
January 29, 2011 — Present

Super flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Gustavo Ballas September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981 0
2   Rafael Pedroza December 5, 1981 — April 8, 1982 0
3   Jiro Watanabe
Jiro Watanabe
is a Japanese former boxerWatanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World Super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.-Biography:...

April 8, 1982 — July 5, 1984s 6
4   Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest...

November 21, 1984 — 1992r 19
5   Katsuya Onizuka
Katsuya Onizuka
is a former WBA Super Flyweight champion from Kitakyushu, Japan. Onizuka was an extremely popular boxer in Japan, creating a boxing boom in Japan during the early 1990s along with Joichiro Tatsuyoshi.-Biography:...

April 10, 1992 — September 18, 1994 5
6   Hyung-Chul Lee September 18, 1994 — July 22, 1995 1
7   Alimi Goitia July 22, 1995 — August 24, 1996 3
8   Yokthai Sithoar August 24, 1996 — December 23, 1997 4
9   Satoshi Iida December 23, 1997 — December 23, 1998 2
10   Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesús Kiki Rojas
Jesus Kiki Rojas is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.- Boxing career :...

December 23, 1998 — July 31, 1999 1
11   Hideki Todaka
Hideki Todaka
Hideki Todaka is a former professional boxer who fought in the super flyweight and bantamweight divisions...

July 31, 1999 — October 9, 2000 2
12   Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez
Silvio Rafael Gamez , better known as Leo Gamez, is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions....

October 9, 2000 — March 11, 2001 0
13   Celes Kobayashi
Celes Kobayashi
Celes Kobayashi is a former professional boxer from Ibaraki, Japan. He is a former WBA Super flyweight champion.He got his ring name, "Celes," from a company he used to work for...

March 11, 2001 — March 9, 2002 1
14   Alexander Muñoz
Alexander Muñoz
Alexander Muñoz is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, nicknamed "El Explosivo."- Boxing career :...

March 9, 2002 — December 3, 2004 3
15   Martín Castillo
Martín Castillo
José Martín Castillo is a boxer from Mexico, who is more commonly known as Martín Castillo. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is a former World Boxing Association Superflyweight champion.- Amateur career :Castillo had an Amateur Record of 160-20...

December 3, 2004 — July 22, 2006 3
16   Nobuo Nashiro
Nobuo Nashiro
Nobuo Nashiro is a professional boxer in the Super flyweight division as well as the WBA super flyweight champion.- Childhood :...

July 22, 2006 — May 3, 2007 1
17   Alexander Munoz (2) May 3, 2007 — May 17, 2008 2
18   Cristian Mijares
Cristian Mijares
Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares is a Mexican professional boxer. Mijares is the former WBC, WBA and current IBF Super Flyweight Champion. Cristian is the older brother of undefeated prospect Ricardo Mijares and the nephew of world title contender Vicente Mijares.-Early life:Cristian comes from a...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
May 17, 2008 — November 1, 2008 1
I   Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
August 15, 2009 — October 15, 2010 2
19   Nobuo Nashiro (2) – {{small|Regular Champion}} Septermber 15, 2008 — May 8, 2010 2
20   Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
November 1, 2008— May 8, 2010 3
21   Hugo Cázares
Hugo Cázares
Hugo Fidel Cázares is a southpaw professional boxer in the Super flyweight division. He is the former WBA Super Flyweight champion and WBO Light Flyweight champion...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
May 8, 2010 — August 31, 2011 4
I   Drian Francisco
Drian Francisco
Adrian Francisco , more commonly known as Drian Francisco, is a Filipino professional boxer. Born in the province of Mindoro, Francisco currently resides in Agoncillo, Batangas...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
November 30, 2010 — Present
22   Tomonobu Shimizu
Tomonobu Shimizu
is a Japanese professional boxer who is the current WBA super flyweight champion in recess. He is an alumnus of the Tokyo University of Agriculture.-Biography:...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
August 31, 2011 — Present 0

Bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Joe Lynch
Joe Lynch (boxer)
Joseph Aloysius Lynch was an American Bantamweight boxer.-Pro career:He won the world title at that weight in 1920, defeating Pete Herman. Herman defeated him to regain the title the following year...

December 22, 1922 — March 21, 1924 1
2   Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein was an American boxer.He was World Bantamweight Champion in 1924, and was ranked the # 5 bantamweight of all time-Boxing career:...

March 21, 1924 — December 19, 1924 4
3   Eddie Martin December 19, 1924 — March 20, 1925 2
4   Charley Rosenberg March 20, 1925 — 1927r 2
5   Bud Taylor
Bud Taylor
Charles Bernard "Bud" Taylor was an American boxer from Terre Haute, Indiana. He was nicknamed the Terre Haute Terrier and the Blonde Terror of Terre Haute.-Pro Boxing Career:...

June 24, 1927 — January 24, 1928r 0
6   Panama Al Brown
Panama Al Brown
Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion. Brown was a native of the city of Colón....

June 18, 1929 — April 1935s 6
7   Sixto Escobar
Sixto Escobar
Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....

August 7, 1935 — August 26, 1935 0
8   Lou Salica August 26, 1935 — November 15, 1935 0
9   Sixto Escobar (2) November 15, 1935 — September 23, 1937 3
10   Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a former world bantamweight and NYSAC featherweight boxing champion...

September 23, 1937 — February 20, 1938 0
11   Sixto Escobar (3) February 20, 1938 — October 4, 1939r 1
12   Georgie Pace October 29, 1939 — September 24, 1940 0
13   Lou Salica (2) September 24, 1940 — August 7, 1942 5
14   Manuel Ortiz
Manuel Ortiz (boxer)
Manuel Ortiz was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. In 1996, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....

August 7, 1942 — January 6, 1947 14
15   Harold Dade
Harold Dade
Harold Dade was an American boxer and Bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:*Won the 1940 Chicago Golden Gloves Championship in the flyweight division by decision over Gene Evans...

January 6, 1947 — March 11, 1947 0
16   Manuel Ortiz (2) March 11, 1947 — May 31, 1950 4
17   Vic Toweel
Vic Toweel
Victor "Vic" Anthony Toweel was a South African boxer and former undisputed World bantamweight champion.Toweel was the first South African to hold a world title.-Personal:...

May 31, 1950 — November 15, 1952 3
18   Jimmy Carruthers
Jimmy Carruthers
James "Jimmy" William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Amateur career:...

November 15, 1952 — May 2, 1954r 3
19   Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen (boxer)
Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:...

September 19, 1954 — 1955s 0
20   Raul Macias
Raul Macias
Raúl Macías Guevara was a former Mexican boxer, actor, and boxing trainer. Born in the same Mexico City barrio as Rubén Olivares, Macías had always expressed pride at being Mexican...

March 9, 1955 — November 6, 1957 2
21   Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...

November 6, 1957 — July 8, 1959 0
22   Jose Becerra
Jose Becerra
Jesus "Hit man" Becerra is a retired Mexican boxer. He became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Early life:...

July 8, 1959 — August 30, 1960r 2
23   Eder Jofre
Eder Jofre
Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...

November 18, 1960 — May 18, 1965 8
24   Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

May 18, 1965 — February 27, 1968 4
25   Lionel Rose
Lionel Rose
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...

February 27, 1968 — August 22, 1969 3
26   Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

August 22, 1969 — October 16, 1970 2
27   Chucho Castillo
Chucho Castillo
Jesus Castillo Aguillera is a former Mexican boxer. Better known as Chucho Castillo, he was WBA and WBC Bantamweight champion in 1970....

October 16, 1970 — April 2, 1971 0
28   Rubén Olivares (2) April 2, 1971 — March 19, 1972 2
29   Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in the Bantamweight division.- Professional career :...

March 19, 1972 — July 29, 1972 0
30   Enrique Pinder July 29, 1972 — January 20, 1973 0
31   Romeo Anaya
Romeo Anaya
Romeo Anaya is a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is the former WBA World Bantamweight Champion.-Pro career:...

January 20, 1973 — November 3, 1973 2
32   Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor was a South African boxer who became the WBA Bantamweight champion in 1973.-Background:Taylor lived during the apartheid period; Born to Muriel and Joe Taylor on 15 July 1943. White South African...

November 3, 1973 — July 3, 1974 0
33   Soo-Hwan Hong July 3, 1974 — March 14, 1975 1
34   Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora
Alfonso Zamora Quiroz is a former Mexican boxer who fought from 1973 to 1980. Zamora was the silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He enjoyed a meteoric rise in his professional career...

March 14, 1975 — November 19, 1977 5
35   Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján was born in Córdoba, Argentina and lives in Mexico City where he writes, sings and runs workshops on creative writing. He has published poetry and children's literature , as well as a short story and a book that teaches a method of writing based on images...

November 19, 1977 — August 29, 1980 5
36   Julian Solís
Julian Solis
Julian Solís is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. He was born in the San Juan area of Río Piedras, but because of the closeness of his birthplace to Caguas, he often trained at the Bairoa Gym in Caguas...

August 29, 1980 — November 14, 1980 0
37   Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (boxer)
"Joltin'" Jeff Chandler is a former boxer. Chandler reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion from November 1980 to April 1984....

November 14, 1980 — April 7, 1984 9
38   Richie Sandoval
Richie Sandoval
Richard Sandoval was a Mexican-American professional boxer and is the former WBA Bantamweight Champion. Richard won a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games and was a U.S. Olympian during his amateur career...

April 7, 1984 — March 10, 1986 2
39   Gaby Canizales
Gaby Canizales
Jose 'Gaby' Canizales is a retired American boxer who won world championships in the bantamweight division. -Pro career:Canizales turned pro in 1979 and in 1983 challenged Jeff Chandler for the World Boxing Association bantamweight title but lost a decision. In 1986 he landed a shot at Richie...

March 10, 1986 — June 4, 1986 0
40   Bernardo Pinango
Bernardo Piñango
José Bernardo Piñango is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the Bantamweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he lost to Cuba's Juan Hernández on points ....

June 4, 1986 — 1987r 3
41   Takuya Muguruma
Takuya Muguruma (boxer)
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBA bantamweight champion. He is an alumnus of the Kinki University.Muguruma became interested in boxing at the age of a junior high school student. In high school, he belonged to the rugby club. As Muguruma was a slow runner, he was a substitute player...

March 29, 1987 — May 24, 1987 0
42   Chan-Yong Park May 24, 1987 — October 4, 1987 0
43   Wilfredo Vazquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

October 4, 1987 — May 9, 1988 1
44   Kaokor Galaxy
Kaokor Galaxy
Nirote Saenkham in Petchaboon, Thailand, is the twin brother of boxing star Khaosai Galaxy and twice world champion in his own right.Like his brother, Nirote Saenkham started his career in the sport of kickboxing and later switched to orthodox boxing...

May 9, 1988 — August 14, 1988 0
45   Sung-Kil Moon
Sung-Kil Moon
Moon Sung-Kil is a former two-division world champion boxer from South Korea. His name is also rendered Sung Kil Moon.- Amateur career :...

August 14, 1988 — July 9, 1989 2
46   Kaokor Galaxy (2) July 9, 1989 — October 18, 1989 0
47   Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....

October 18, 1989 — October 19, 1991 2
48   Israel Contreras
Israel Contreras
Israel Contreras is a former Venezuelan boxer who won the World Boxing Association bantamweight title. He had a supporting role in the Mel Gibson film Apocalypto.-Boxing career:...

October 19, 1991 — March 15, 1992 0
49   Eddie Cook March 15, 1992 — October 9, 1992 0
50   Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha is a former Colombian bantamweight boxer best known to win the WBA and later the WBO title as a pro.-Amateur:...

October 9, 1992 — October 23, 1993 2
51   Junior Jones
Junior Jones
Junior Jones is an American former professional boxer. Known by his nickname of "Poison", he won world championships at bantamweight and super bantamweight, and is best remembered for his two victories over then-undefeated Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.-Amateur career:Jones won two New York...

October 23, 1993 — April 22, 1994 1
52   John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson was an American bantamweight boxer. He briefly held a championship in that division.- Professional career :...

April 22, 1994 — July 16, 1994 0
53   Daorung Chuvatana
Daorung Chuvatana
Daorung Chuvatana also known as Surapol Sidangnoi is a retired boxer who won World titles in the Bantamweight weight divisions....

July 16, 1994 — September 17, 1995 2
54   Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veerapol Sahaprom is a former WBC and WBA Bantamweight Champion. He is from the Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand...

September 17, 1995 — January 28, 1996 0
55   Nana Konadu
Nana Konadu
Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah is a retired boxer who won World titles in two different weight divisions. Konadu turned pro in 1985 and in 1989 won the WBC Super Flyweight Title by winning a decision over Gilberto Roman. He lost the belt in his first defense to Sung Kil Moon in 1990 and lost a rematch to...

January 28, 1996 — October 27, 1996 0
56   Daorung Chuvatana (2) October 27, 1996 — June 21, 1997 1
57   Nana Konadu (2) June 21, 1997 — December 5, 1998 1
58   Johnny Tapia
Johnny Tapia
John Lee "Johnny" Tapia is a Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion.-Childhood:Johnny Tapia's life began with tragedy. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. At the age of 8, his mother Virginia was kidnapped, raped, hung, repeatedly stabbed, and...

December 5, 1998 — June 26, 1999 0
59   Paulie Ayala
Paulie Ayala
Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...

June 26, 1999 — August 7, 2001s 3
60   Eidy Moya
Eidy Moya
Eidy Moya is a retired boxer who won World titles in the bantamweight weight division.-Early life:Moya's natural boxing skills showed early in his life when older boys persuade him to brawl in the streets. The winner was awarded with a coke and Venezuelan home-made cookie named "Catalina"...

October 14, 2001 — April 19, 2002 1
61   Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl
Johnny Bredahl , aka Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion...

April 19, 2002 — October 11, 2004r 3
62   Wladimir Sidorenko
Wladimir Sidorenko
Volodymyr Sydorenko, or Vladimir Sidorenko, is a professional boxer in the bantamweight division. He is the former WBA world bantamweight champion, and twin brother of Valeriy Sydorenko.-Amateur career:...

February 26, 2005 — May 31, 2008 6
63   Anselmo Moreno
Anselmo Moreno
Anselmo Moreno is a professional boxer from El Martillo San Miguelito, Republic of Panama.He is the current WBA Bantamweight Super Champion. In August 2011, Moreno signed a four fight promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions.-Bantamweight:...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
May 31, 2008 — Present 7
64   Koki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
December 26, 2010 — Present 0
I   Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz
Hugo Ruiz Dominguez is a Mexican professional boxer in the bantamweight division and is the current interim World Boxing Association bantamweight champion.-Professional career:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
January 22, 2011 — Present 0

Super bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Soo-Hwan Hong January 26, 1977 — May 7, 1978 1
2   Ricardo Cardona
Ricardo Cardona
Ricardo Cardona is a Latino chef in New York City who is the executive chef of Lua, Sofrito and Hudson River Cafe as well as the chef for the New York Yankees and their opponents during home games at Yankee Stadium.-Career:...

May 7, 1978 — May 4, 1980 5
3   Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph is a former American boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:Randolph had an outstanding amateur career...

May 4, 1980 — August 9, 1980 0
4   Sergio Victor Palma August 9, 1980 — June 12, 1982 5
5   Leo Cruz
Leo Cruz
Leonardo Cruz , better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.-Personal:...

June 12, 1982 — February 22, 1984 3
6   Loris Stecca
Loris Stecca
Loris Stecca Loris Stecca Loris Stecca (born March 30, 1960 is an Italian former world champion boxer. His brother Maurizio is also a former boxer and held the WBO world Featherweight title shortly during the late 1990s.-Professional career:...

February 22, 1984 — May 26, 1984 0
7   Victor Callejas
Victor Callejas
Victor Callejas is a Puerto Rican former boxer who was World Junior Featherweight champion. A native of Guaynabo, Callejas as a child wanted to be a singer, and his childhood friend, Orvil Miller, wanted to be a boxer. As it turned out, however, it was Callejas who was a boxer and Miller who...

May 26, 1984 — 1986r 2
8   Louie Espinoza
Louie Espinoza
Louie Espinoza is an American boxer in the Featherweight division. He now resides in Chandler, Arizona....

January 11, 1987 — November 28, 1987 2
9   Julio Gervacio
Julio Gervacio
Julio Antonio Gervacio is a former boxer and Super Bantamweight champion titleholder from the Dominican Republic.As a child, he relocated to Puerto Rico. He always expressed pride in his national background; and he considered himself a Dominican-Puerto Rican...

November 28, 1987 — February 27, 1988 0
10   Bernardo Pinango
Bernardo Piñango
José Bernardo Piñango is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the Bantamweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he lost to Cuba's Juan Hernández on points ....

February 27, 1988 — May 28, 1988 0
11   Juan Jose Estrada
Juan Jose Estrada
Juan José Estrada was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is a former WBC International and the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

May 28, 1988 — November 11, 1989 3
12   Jesús Salud
Jesus Salud
Jesus Salud Born 3 May 1963 is an American professional boxer of Filipino descent. Originally from Sinait in the Philippines, he resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. He won the World Boxing Association super bantamweight title by disqualification on December 11, 1989 in a bout against Juan Jose Estrada....

November 11, 1989 — 1990r 0
13   Luis Enrique Mendoza September 11, 1990 — October 7, 1991 4
14   Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in two weight divisions.- Professional career :...

October 7, 1991 — March 27, 1992 0
15   Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

March 27, 1992 — May 13, 1995 9
16   Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño Coloso is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who twice won the world title.-External links:*...

May 13, 1995 — 1998r 7
17   Enrique Sánchez
Enrique Sánchez
Enrique José Sánchez León was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division...

February 8, 1998 — December 12, 1998 0
18   Néstor Garza
Néstor Garza
Néstor Gabriel Garza is a Mexican boxer in the Light Welterweight division. He is a former Mexican National, WBO NABO, and the WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

December 12, 1998 — March 4, 2000 2
19   Clarence Adams
Clarence Adams
Clarence Richard Adams is a former boxer. He has won a world title in the Super Bantamweight weight division.- Professional career :...

March 4, 2000 — 2001s 2
20   Yober Ortega November 17, 2001 — February 21, 2002 0
21   Yoddamrong Sithyodthong February 21, 2002 — May 18, 2002 0
22   Osamu Sato May 18, 2002 — October 9, 2002 0
23     Salim Medjkoune October 9, 2002 — July 4, 2003 1
24   Mahyar Monshipour
Mahyar Monshipour
Mahyar Monshipour is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006...

July 4, 2003 — March 18, 2006 5
25   Somsak Sithchatchawal
Somsak Sithchatchawal
Somsak Sithchatchawal is a professional boxer in the super bantamweight division.In March 2006, Sithchatchawal took part in what later won fight of the year when he challenged WBA Super Bantamweight champion Mahyar Monshipour. Sithchatchawal dropped Monshipour in the first round, and won via TKO...

March 18, 2006 — October 4, 2006 0
26   Celestino Caballero
Celestino Caballero
Celestino "Pelenchin" Caballero is a professional boxer from Panama. He is the former undisputed Super Bantamweight WBA & IBF and Super Champion for the WBA. On October 14th, 2011, Celestino became the new WBA Featherweight champion of the world after beating Jonathan Barros at Luna Park, Argentina...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
October 4, 2006 — Present 8
27   Ricardo Cordoba
Ricardo Cordoba
Ricardo Alberto Cordoba Mosque, more commonly known as Ricardo Cordoba, is a Panamanian professional boxer who fights in the super bantamweight division.-Professional career:...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
November 21, 2008 — March 21, 2009 0
28   Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne
Bernard Dunne is a retired Irish professional boxer and a former WBA, and European super bantamweight champion.On Saturday 21 March 2009, Dunne waged the war that he would be best remembered for and defeated Ricardo Cordoba in the 11th round to become the WBA super bantamweight champion in a fight...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
March 21, 2009 — September 26, 2009 0
29   Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Chalermwong Udomna , who boxes as Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, is a professional boxer from Thailand who fights in the super bantamweight division...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
September 26, 2009 — October 2, 2010 3
30   Ryol Li Lee
Ryol Li Lee
Ryol Li Lee or Retsuri Lee is a professional boxer from Japan, born on May 20, 1982. He was born in Kadoma, Osaka, and lives in Yokohama, Kanagawa.-Biography:Lee won his first fight by third round KO in 2005...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
October 2, 2010 — January 31, 2010 0
31   Akifumi Shimoda
Akifumi Shimoda
is a super bantamweight boxer from Japan and the former world champion of WBA at Super bantamweight. He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, grew up in Kure city, and currently lives in Tokyo...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
January 31, 2010 — July 9, 2011 0
32   Rico Ramos
Rico Ramos
Rico Dashon Ramos is an American Super Bantamweight boxer of Puerto Rican descent. He is the current WBA world super bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
July 9, 2011 — Present 0
I   Guillermo Rigondeaux – {{small|Interim Champion}} November 13, 2010 — Present 1

Featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

September 12, 1927 — February 10, 1928 0
2   Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...

February 10, 1928 — September 28, 1928 0
3   Andre Routis
Andre Routis
Andre Routis was a French professional boxer. He fought 86 times between 1919 and 1929; winning 54 , losing 25 and drawing 7. After a victory over Tony Canzoneri he held the world featherweight title from 1928 to 1929...

September 28, 1928 — September 23, 1929 1
4   Battling Battalino
Battling Battalino
Christopher Battaglia better known as Battling Battalino, was an American former world featherweight boxing champion...

September 23, 1929 — January 27, 1932r 0
5   Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul
Tommy Paul was an a former world featherweight boxing champion from Buffalo, NY. He was inducted into the first class of Buffalo’s Ring No. 44 Boxing Hall of Fame and in 2003 to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. He won the world featherweight championship in May 1932, defeating Johnny Pena...

May 26, 1932 — January 13, 1933 0
6   Freddie Miller
Freddie Miller (boxer)
Freddie Miller was an American boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio. Freddie Miller was one of the very best featherweight boxers of the 1930s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years....

January 13, 1933 — May 11, 1936 12
7   Petey Sarron
Petey Sarron
Petey Sarron was a member of the Olympic Team at flyweight in boxing for the United States during the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...

May 11, 1936 — October 29, 1937 2
8   Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...

October 29, 1937 — 1937r 0
9   Joey Archibald
Joey Archibald
Joey Archibald was the former world boxing featherweight champion. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island....

April 18, 1939 — April 1940s 0
10   Petey Scalzo
Petey Scalzo
Petey Scalzo is an American boxer from Brooklyn, New York.Petey Scalzo fought Frankie Covelli for the National Boxing Association World featherweight title at Griffith Stadium Petey beat Covelli by TKO....

May 15, 1940 — July 1, 1941 2
11   Richie Lemos
Richie Lemos
Richie Lemos was a Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division...

July 1, 1941 — November 18, 1941 0
12   Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson (Boxer)
Jackie Wilson was an American boxer born in South Carolina but raised and listed from Pittsburgh. He was undefeated in his first 6 fights with a record of 4-0-2....

November 18, 1941 — January 18, 1943 1
13   Jackie Callura
Jackie Callura
John "Jackie" Callura was a Canadian featherweight boxer.He was born and died in Hamilton, Ontario,.Callura won the national featherweight title in 1931 and was a member of the 1932 Summer Olympics team....

January 18, 1943 — August 16, 1943 1
14   Phil Terranova
Phil Terranova
Phil Terranova was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion. Terranova won the crown when he KO'ed Jackie Callura on August 16, 1943, and lost the belt when he was outpointed by Sal Bartolo on March 10, 1944.Terranova retired with a record of 67 wins , 21 losses and 11 draws...

August 16, 1943 — March 10, 1944 1
15   Sal Bartolo
Sal Bartolo
Salvatore Interbartolo, better known as Sal Bartolo was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion.-Amateur career:...

March 10, 1944 — June 7, 1946 3
16   Willie Pep
Willie Pep
Guglielmo Papaleo was an American boxer who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts...

June 7, 1946 — October 29, 1948 2
17   Sandy Saddler
Sandy Saddler
Joseph "Sandy" Saddler was an American boxer born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, and also held the junior lightweight crown. Over his twelve-year career , Saddler scored 103 knockouts. He was stopped only once, in his second pro fight, by Jock Leslie. ...

October 29, 1948 — February 11, 1949 2
18   Willie Pep (2) February 11, 1949 — September 8, 1950 3
19   Sandy Saddler (2) September 8, 1950 — 1953r 1
20   Sandy Saddler (3) February 25, 1955 — 1956r 1
21   Sugar Ramos
Sugar Ramos
Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...

March 21, 1963 — September 26, 1964 3
22   Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Samuel Saldivar García was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion...

September 26, 1964 — 1967r 7
23   Raul Rojas
Raul Rojas
Raul Rojas is a retired Mexican American featherweight boxer.He accumulated a record of 38 wins , 7 losses and 2 draws. On March 28, 1968, Rojas defeated Enrique Higgins to win the WBA Featherweight title, which Vicente Saldivar had vacated after announcing his retirement. He lost the title on...

March 28, 1968 — September 27, 1968 0
24   Shozo Saijo
Shozo Saijo
Shozo Saijo is a former professional boxer from Saitama, Japan. He is a former WBA featherweight champion.- Biography :...

September 27, 1968 — September 2, 1971 5
25   Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez is a former professional boxer who fought in the featherweight division. Gomez won the WBA world featherweight title in 1971.-Professional career:...

September 2, 1971 — August 19, 1972 1
26   Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel is a retired Panamanian boxer.-Career:Making his professional debut as a teenager in 1966, Marcel built up a record of 31-3-1, which included a second round knockout of Bernardo Caraballo, who had previously fought Fighting Harada and Éder Jofre for world titles, and a tenth round...

August 19, 1972 — February 16, 1974r 4
27   Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

July 9, 1974 — November 23, 1974 0
28   Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...

November 23, 1974 — 1976r 4
29   Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega
Rafael Ortega is a former professional boxer. The highlight of his career came in 1977, when he won the WBA World featherweight title.-Professional career:...

January 15, 1977 — December 17, 1977 1
30   Cecilio Lastra
Cecilio Lastra
Cecilio Lastra is a former Spanish professional boxer. He fought 54 times between 1975 and 1982; winning 39 , losing 13 and drawing 2. The highlight of Lastra's career came in 1977 when he won the WBA world featherweight title against Rafael Ortega...

December 17, 1977 — April 15, 1978 0
31   Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too...

April 15, 1978 — June 8, 1985 19
32   Barry McGuigan
Barry McGuigan
Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...

June 8, 1985 — June 23, 1986 2
33   Steve Cruz June 23, 1986 — March 6, 1987 0
34   Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza Betancourt was a boxer in the featherweight division from Venezuela.- Amateur career :Esparragoza represented Venezuela as a Featherweight at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.*1st round bye...

March 6, 1987 — March 30, 1991 7
35   Yong-Kyun Park
Yong-Kyun Park
Yong-Kyun Park is a former Korean boxer. He was the Lineal & WBA Featherweight Champion from 1991-1993.-References:...

March 30, 1991 — December 4, 1993 8
36   Eloy Rojas
Eloy Rojas
Eloy David Rojas Leandro was a professional boxer in the Featherweight division.Rojas turned pro in 1986 and won the Lineal & WBA Featherweight Titles in 1993 by defeating Yong-Kyun Park by decision. He defended the titles six times before losing them to Wilfredo Vazquez in 1996 via TKO in a...

December 4, 1993 — May 18, 1996 6
37   Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez
Wilfredo Vázquez is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Champion at three different weights, Bantamweight, Super bantamweight and Featherweight.-Early life and amateur career:...

May 18, 1996 — 1997s 4
38   Freddie Norwood
Freddie Norwood
Freddie Norwood is a boxer in the lightweight division. Known as "Lil Hagler", Norwood defeated Antonio Cermeño to win the WBA Featherweight Title title in 1998. He successfully defended his title eight times before losing his title by a controversial 11th round TKO to Smoke Gainer...

April 3, 1998 — 1998s 2
39   Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño
Antonio Cermeño Coloso is a retired boxer from Venezuela, who twice won the world title.-External links:*...

October 3, 1998 — May 29, 1999 1
40   Freddie Norwood (2) May 29, 1999 — September 9, 2000 3
41   Derrick Gainer
Derrick Gainer
Derrick "Smoke" Gainer is a US born boxer who started out in the featherweight division and now fights in the lightweight division. In 2000, he defeated Freddie Norwood to win the World Boxing Association featherweight title and after four defenses lost to Juan Manuel Márquez, who became super...

September 9, 2000 — November 1, 2003 3
42   Juan Manuel Marquez
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
November 1, 2003 — 2005s 3
43   Chris John
Chris John (boxer)
Yohannes Christian John is an Indonesian professional boxer, and the current WBA featherweight champion....

– {{small|Regular Champion/Became Super Champion}}
November 1, 2003 — Present 15
44   Yuriorkis Gamboa – {{small|Unified Champion}} July 23, 2009 — Present 3
45   Jonathan Victor Barros
Jonathan Victor Barros
Jonathan Victor Barros is an Argentine featherweight boxer and is the current WBA World featherweight champion.-IBF featherweight championship:...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
December 4, 2010 — Present 1

Super featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....

November 18, 1921 — May 30, 1923 4
2   Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein, also known as "John Dodick," "Kid Murphy," and Young Murphy," was an American boxer. He was World Junior lightweight Champion, with the title taken from and later lost to Johnny Dundee Jack bernstein exposed zionists and was murdered by mossad....

May 30, 1923 — December 17, 1923 1
3   Johnny Dundee (2) December 17, 1923 — June 20, 1924 0
4   Steve Sullivan June 20, 1924 — December 15, 1924 2
5   Mike Ballerino December 15, 1924 — December 2, 1925 3
6   Tod Morgan
Tod Morgan
Albert Morgan Pilkington, better known as "Tod Morgan," , was an American boxer.-Background:According to the April 7, 1927 Spokane Spokesman-Review, Morgan was born in Dungeness, WA--which is adjacent to Sequim...

December 2, 1925 — December 20, 1929 12
7   Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

December 20, 1929 — July 15, 1931 1
8   Eligio {{small
Kid Chocolate
For the boxer of the same nickname see Peter Quillin.Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo , better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s.-Biography:Eligio Montaldo, also nicknamed The Cuban Bon Bon, learned how...

July 15, 1931 — September 1932 {{small|(title discontinued)}} 4
9   Harold Gomes
Harold Gomes
Harold Gomes is a former professional boxer. He fought 60 times between 1951 and 1963; winning 50 and losing 10...

July 20, 1959 — March 16, 1960 4
10   Gabriel Elorde March 16, 1960 — June 15, 1967 10
11   Yoshiaki Numata
Yoshiaki Numata
Yoshiaki Numata is a former world Junior Lightweight boxing champion.Numata turned professional in 1962 and won the WBC and WBA super featherweight world titles by defeating Flash Elorde by decision in 1967, although Numata was knocked down in the 3rd round. He lost the title in his first...

June 15, 1967 — December 14, 1967 0
12   Hiroshi Kobayashi
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Hiroshi Kobayashi, , is a former professional boxer.Kobayashi turned pro in 1962 and won the WBC and WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1967 by defeating Yoshiaki Numata by 12th round KO, in a bout where Numata was down once in the 6th and three times in the 12th roundand so becoming the undisputed...

December 14, 1967 — July 29, 1971 6
13   Alfredo Marcano
Alfredo Marcano
Alfredo Marcano was a Venezuelan professional boxer. During his career, which spanned from 1966 to 1975, Marcano won the WBA World super featherweight title. Marcano challenged for the WBA title on July 29, 1971 against Hiroshi Kobayashi. The fight took place in Japan—the home country of the...

July 29, 1971 — April 25, 1972 1
14   Ben Villaflor
Ben Villaflor
Benjamin Villaflor is a former boxer who was the WBA world junior lightweight champion during the 1970s.-Professional boxing career:...

April 25, 1972 — March 12, 1973 1
15   Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata is a former Japanese professional boxer. He is a former WBC and WBA super featherweight champion.- Biography :...

March 12, 1973 — October 17, 1973 1
16   Ben Villaflor (2) October 17, 1973 — October 16, 1976 5
17   Samuel Serrano
Samuel Serrano
Samuel Serrano , nicknamed Sammy and El Torbellino, is a Puerto Rican who won boxing's world junior lightweight championship twice.-Early history:...

October 16, 1976 — August 2, 1980 10
18   Yasutsune Uehara
Yasutsune Uehara
Yasutsune Uehara is a former professional boxer and former WBA super featherweight champion. He is one of the few Japanese boxers to have won the world title fighting outside of Japan.- Biography :...

August 2, 1980 — April 9, 1981 1
19   Samuel Serrano (2) April 9, 1981 — January 19, 1983 3
20   Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

January 19, 1983 — February 26, 1984 2
21   Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge , is a former boxer and world champion. As a professional, he is perhaps best known for handing Roger Mayweather his first defeat, in a first-round knockout for the WBA super featherweight championship.-Amateur career:...

February 26, 1984 — May 19, 1985 2
22   Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez , sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, is a former boxer and three time world champion.-Biography:...

May 19, 1985 — May 24, 1986 0
23   Alfredo Layne
Alfredo Layne
Alfredo Layne was a Panamanian professional boxer. Layne is notable for having won the WBA World super featherweight title. Layne, who began fighting professionally in 1981, fought in his first world title fight on May 24, 1986 as he travelled to San Juan to challenge the Puerto Rican world...

May 24, 1986 — September 27, 1986 0
24   Brian Mitchell September 27, 1986 — 1991s 12
25   Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache, , was a professional boxer. Gamache is the former WBA Super Featherweight, and WBA Lightweight Champion.At the age of 10, playing third base in Little League, he tended to loop his throws to first...

June 28, 1991 — 1991r 0
26   Genaro Hernandez
Genaro Hernandez
Genaro Hernández was a Mexican-American boxer from South Central Los Angeles. Hernández was the former WBC, WBA, & Lineal super featherweight champion.-Pro career:...

June 28, 1991 — April 1995r 8
27   Yong-Soo Choi
Yong-Soo Choi
Yong-Soo Choi is a former boxer from South Korea.In 1993, he won the Orient and Pacific Boxing Federation super featherweight title....

October 21, 1995 — September 5, 1998 7
28   Takanori Hatakeyama
Takanori Hatakeyama
is a former professional boxer.Hatakeyama turned pro in 1993 and captured the WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1998 with a majority decision win over Yong Soo Choi. He lost the belt in 1999 to Lakva Sim via TKO, and moved up in weight to capture the WBA Lightweight Title with a TKO win over...

September 5, 1998 — October 31, 1999 1
29   Lakva Sim
Lakva Sim
Lakva Sim, , is a professional boxer. Sim was the first Mongolian boxer to capture a world boxing title. He has held belts as both the World Boxing Association lightweight champion and the WBA super featherweight champion.Sim was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia...

June 27, 1999 — October 31, 1999 0
30   Jong-Kwon Baek
Jong-Kwon Baek
Jong-Kwon Baek is a former boxer from South Korea.-External links:...

October 31, 1999 — May 21, 2000 1
31   Joel Casamayor
Joel Casamayor
Joel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro after defecting to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the brush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face...

May 21, 2000 — January 12, 2002 4
32   Acelino Freitas
Acelino Freitas
Acelino "Popó" Freitas is a Brazilian boxer and a former world junior lightweight and lightweight champion. Freitas is also a state legislator for the state of Bahia . His style of fighting in the ring has garnered him a reputation for being more of a brawler than a boxer. His nickname, Popó, was...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
January 12, 2002 — August 9, 2003r 3
33   Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai
Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai
Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai Sityodtong a.k.a. Yodsanan 3-K Battery , is a professional Thai boxer in light welterweight division...

April 13, 2002 — April 30, 2005 3
34   Vicente Mosquera
Vicente Mosquera
Vicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super-featherweight champion....

April 30, 2005 — August 5, 2006 1
35   Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He was born in Bolero Alto, and raised in El Vigía ....

August 5, 2006 — September 3, 2008r 4
36   Jorge Linares
Jorge Linares
Jorge Linares is a professional boxer from Venezuela. He is a former WBC featherweight champion and former WBA super featherweight champion. Linares is currently living in Tokyo, Japan. Jorge's older brother is boxer Nelson Linares.- Amateur career :Linares compiled an Amateur record of 89-5...

November 28, 2008 — October 10, 2009 1
37   Juan Carlos Salgado
Juan Carlos Salgado
Juan Carlos Salgado is a Mexican professional boxer in the Super Featherweight division. He is the former WBC FECARBOX, WBC Continental Americas Featherweight, and WBA Super Featherweight Champion...

October 10, 2009 — January 11, 2010 0
41   Takashi Uchiyama
Takashi Uchiyama
is a super featherweight boxer from Japan and the current WBA Super Featherweight Champion. He was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, grew up in Kasukabe, Saitama, and lives in Tokyo....

January 11, 2010 — Present 2
I   Jorge Solis
Jorge Solís
Jorge Iván Solís Pérez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former holder of various minor and regional titles including, the Jalisco State Featherweight title, WBC Latin America title, Mexican Super Bantamweight and Featherweight divisions and WBA Fedecentro titles...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
May 8, 2010 — Present 1

Lightweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Benny Leonard
Benny Leonard
Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time....

May 18, 19171 — January 15, 1925r 9
2   Jimmy Goodrich July 13, 1925 — December 7, 1925 0
3   Rocky Kansas
Rocky Kansas
Rocky Kansas was a tough, short former lightweight champion of the world. He was born Rocco Tozzo on April 21, 1893 in Italy and came to America in 1898. He died on January 10, 1954.-Background:...

December 7, 1925 — July 3, 1926 1
4   Sammy Mandel
Sammy Mandel
Sammy Mandell was a former world lightweight boxing champion...

July 3, 1926 — July 17, 1930 4
5   Al Singer
Al Singer
Al Singer was an American boxer. He was born in the Lower East Side in New York City....

July 17, 1930 — November 14, 1930 0
6   Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...

November 14, 1930 — June 23, 1933 4
7   Barney Ross
Barney Ross
Barney Ross , born Beryl David Rosofsky, was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II.-Early life:...

June 23, 1933 — April 9, 1935r 1
8   Tony Canzoneri (2) May 10, 1935 — September 3, 1936 1
9   Lou Ambers
Lou Ambers
Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio , aka Lou Ambers, was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941.Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career losing only once in more than three years when he faced future hall of fame lightweight...

September 3, 1936 — August 17, 1938 2
10   Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...

August 17, 1938 — August 22, 1939 1
11   Lou Ambers (2) August 22, 1939 — May 10, 1940 0
12   Lew Jenkins May 10, 1940 — December 19, 1941 1
13   Sammy Angott
Sammy Angott
Sammy Angott was born Samuel Engotti in Pennsylvania. He was known as a clever boxer who liked to follow up a clean punch by grabbing his opponent, causing him to be known as "The Clutch."...

December 19, 1941 — November 13, 1942r 1
14   Beau Jack
Beau Jack
Sidney Walker, better known as Beau Jack, , was an American lightweight boxer, he was a world champion twice...

November 19, 1943 — March 3, 1944r 0
15   Juan Zurita
Juan Zurita
Juan Zurita was a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division and a former Lightweight world champion.-Pro career:During his career he won a version of the Lightweight Championship of the World and other belts such as the NBA Lightweight Championship of the World, Featherweight Championship of...

March 8, 1944 — April 18, 1945 0
16   Ike Williams
Ike Williams (boxer)
Ike Williams was a former lightweight world boxing champion. Williams was known for his great right hand, and was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time as well as Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year for 1948.-Professional Career:During his career, Williams faced and...

April 18, 1945 — May 25, 1951 7
17   Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (boxer)
James Walter Carter was a world lightweight boxing champion. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2000. Carter's loss to Lauro Salas in 1952 and his loss to Paddy DeMarco in 1954 were each named Ring Magazine upset of the year...

May 25, 1951 — April 1, 1952 2
18   Lauro Salas
Lauro Salas
Lauro Salas was a former world lightweight boxing champion.-Professional career:...

April 1, 1952 — October 15, 1952 1
19   Jimmy Carter (2) October 15, 1952 — March 5, 1954 3
20   Paddy DeMarco
Paddy DeMarco
Paddy DeMarco, alias Billygoat, was a lightweight professional boxer from Brooklyn, New York.-Personal life:DeMarco was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, but died in Salt Lake City, Utah....

March 5, 1954 — November 17, 1954 0
21   Jimmy Carter (3) November 17, 1954 — June 29, 1955 0
22   Wallace Smith June 29, 1955 — August 24, 1956 1
23   Joe Brown
Joe Brown (boxer)
Joe Brown was an accomplished boxer who won the undisputed Lightweight Championship of the World in 1956, making 11 successful defences before losing his crown in his old age to Carlos Ortiz in 1962. Brown was a classic boxer and a knockout puncher...

August 24, 1956 — April 21, 1962 10
24   Carlos Ortiz
Carlos Ortiz
For the Cuban wrestler with the same name see Carlos Julian OrtízCarlos Ortiz is a Puerto Rican who was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight division and once in the Jr. Welterweights....

April 21, 1962 — April 10, 1965 4
25   Ismael Laguna
Ismael Laguna
Ismael Laguna Meneses was a professional boxer. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001.Known as "El Tigre Colonense", Laguna was the Panamanian Featherweight Champion from 1962-63...

April 10, 1965 — November 13, 1965 0
26   Carlos Ortiz (2) November 13, 1965 — June 29, 1968 5
27   Carlos Teo Cruz June 29, 1968 — February 18, 1969 1
28   Mando Ramos
Mando Ramos
Armando Ramos was a Mexican-American professional boxer and the former two-time WBC and WBA Lightweight Champion. He was born in Long Beach, California. Armando "Mando" Ramos was one of the most popular and exciting fighters in Southern California during the 1960s. Ramos was an outstanding amateur...

February 18, 1969 — March 3, 1970 1
29   Ismael Laguna (2) March 3, 1970 — September 26, 1970 1
30 Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan is a former boxing undisputed world lightweight champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.- Early career :...

September 26, 1970 — June 26, 1972 2
31   Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

June 26, 1972 — January 1979r 12
32   Ernesto España
Ernesto España
Ernesto España was a Venezuelan boxer who held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship in 1979 and 1980.España became a professional boxer in 1975 and won all of his bouts except one when he fought Claude Noel on June 16, 1979, for the vacant WBA lightweight title that had been given...

June 16, 1979 — March 2, 1980 1
33   Hilmer Kenty
Hilmer Kenty
James Kenty, also known as Hilmer Kenty is a former WBA professional boxing champion in the lightweight division.- Amateur career :...

March 2, 1980 — April 12, 1981 3
34   Sean O'Grady April 12, 1981 — 1981r 0
35   Claude Noel
Claude Noel (boxer)
Claude Noel is a former Tobagonian professional boxer. During his career, which spanned from 1973 to 1984, Noel held the WBA World Lightweight title and the Commonwealth Lightweight title....

September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981 0
36   Arturo Frias
Arturo Frias
Arturo Frias is a retired American boxer. He is a native of Montebello, California.-Boxing career:Frias began his professional boxing career on February 7, 1975, one month and a half after he had turned eighteen years old. He beat Alfredo Medrano by a six round decision in San Diego that night...

December 5, 1981 — May 8, 1982 1
37   Ray Mancini
Ray Mancini
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is a retired Italian-American boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship from 1982 to 1984. Mancini inherited his distinctive nickname from his father, veteran boxer Lenny "Boom Boom" Mancini, who laid the foundation for his son's career...

May 8, 1982 — June 1, 1984 4
38   Livingstone Bramble
Livingstone Bramble
Ras-I Alujah Bramble is a boxer. However, Bramble was raised on Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He became the first world champion from Saint Kitts and Nevis. As of 2005, Bramble is still active in professional boxing...

June 1, 1984 — September 26, 1986 2
39   Edwin Rosario
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...

September 26, 1986 — November 21, 1987 1
40   Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

November 21, 1987 — 1989r 2
41   Edwin Rosario (2) July 9, 1989 — May 4, 1990 0
42   Juan Nazario
Juan Nazario
Juan Nazario is a former professional boxer. During his career, which lasted from 1982 to 1993, Nazario won the WBA world lightweight title. His first world title challenge came in 1987 when he fought fellow Puerto Rican Edwin Rosario for the WBA belt, Roasario won the fight by an eighth round...

May 4, 1990 — August 11, 1990 0
43   Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

August 11, 1990 — 1992r 3
44   Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache, , was a professional boxer. Gamache is the former WBA Super Featherweight, and WBA Lightweight Champion.At the age of 10, playing third base in Little League, he tended to loop his throws to first...

June 13, 1992 — October 24, 1992 0
45   Tony Lopez October 24, 1992 — June 26, 1993 1
46   Dingaan Thobela
Dingaan Thobela
Dingaan Bongane Thobela , is a professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division."Rose of Soweto" The Dingaan Thobela story , the intimate biography written by Internationally renowned Deon Potgieter is available for order through all leading on-line stores world wide e.g.; Amazon, Barnes &...

June 26, 1993 — October 30, 1993 0
47   Orzubek Nazarov
Orzubek Nazarov
Orzubek Nazarov is a Kyrgyz boxer, who won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno...

October 30, 1993 — May 16, 1998 6
48   Jean Baptiste Mendy
Jean Baptiste Mendy
Jean-Baptiste Mendy is a French former professional boxer of African origin. He's also a former WBC and WBA lightweight champion.- Professional career :...

May 16, 1998 — April 10, 1999 1
49   Julien Lorcy
Julien Lorcy
Julien Lorcy , was a professional boxer who held the WBA lightweight title twice.- Amateur career :Record: 65-4 *1990 French National Amateur Featherweight Champion...

April 10, 1999 — August 7, 1999 0
50   Stefano Zoff
Stefano Zoff
Stefano Zoff is an Italian lightweight boxer from Monfalcone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.-External links:...

August 7, 1999 — November 13, 1999 0
51   Gilberto Serrano
Gilberto Serrano
Gilberto Rafael Serrano is a former professional boxer. Serrano is most notable for having won the WBA World lightweight title during his career, which spanned from 1993 to 2004. He won the Lightweight title from Stefano Zoff in 1999 after unsuccessfully challenging Yong Soo Choi for the WBA World...

November 13, 1999 — June 11, 2000 1
52   Takanori Hatakeyama
Takanori Hatakeyama
is a former professional boxer.Hatakeyama turned pro in 1993 and captured the WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1998 with a majority decision win over Yong Soo Choi. He lost the belt in 1999 to Lakva Sim via TKO, and moved up in weight to capture the WBA Lightweight Title with a TKO win over...

June 11, 2000 — July 1, 2001 2
53   Julien Lorcy (2) July 1, 2001 — October 18, 2001 0
54   Raul Horacio Balbi
Raul Horacio Balbi
Raul Horacio Balbi is an Argentine professional boxer. Although Balbi currently competes in the light welterweight division, he is most notable for having won the WBA world lightweight title....

October 18, 2001 — January 5, 2002 0
55   Leonard Doroftei
Leonard Doroftei
Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.-Amateur highlights:...

January 5, 2002 — 2004r 2
56   Lakva Sim
Lakva Sim
Lakva Sim, , is a professional boxer. Sim was the first Mongolian boxer to capture a world boxing title. He has held belts as both the World Boxing Association lightweight champion and the WBA super featherweight champion.Sim was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia...

April 10, 2004 — July 17, 2004 0
57   Juan Díaz
Juan Díaz (American boxer)
Juan Díaz, born September 17, 1983 in Houston, Texas, is a retired Mexican-American boxer in the lightweight division. His record is 35-4...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
July 17, 2004 — March 8, 2008 7
58   Jose Alfaro
José Alfaro
José Alfaro is a Nicaraguan boxer with a record of 20-3-0-1 who captured the vacant WBA lightweight title against Thai Prawet Singwancha in a split decision on December 29, 2007 in Bielefeld, Germany. He later lost that title on May 19, 2008 to Yusuke Kobori who knocked him out in only 3 rounds...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
December 29, 2007 — May 19, 2008 0
59   Nate Campbell
Nate Campbell
Nathaniel Campbell , more commonly known as Nate Campbell, is an American retired professional boxer. He is a former unified WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight champion.-Amateur career:...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
March 8, 2008 — January 10, 2009r 0
60   Yusuke Kobori
Yusuke Kobori
is a retired professional boxer from Japan and a former WBA lightweight champion.Kobori won the Japanese super featherweight title on January 14, 2006 by knocking out Keita Manabe in the second round. He went on to defend it 6 times....

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
May 19, 2008 — January 3, 2009 0
61   Paulus Moses
Paulus Moses
Paulus “The Hitman” Moses is a Namibian professional lightweight boxer. He was the World Boxing Association lightweight world champion...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
January 3, 2009 — May 29, 2010 1
62   Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
February 28, 2009 — Present 2
63   Miguel Acosta
Miguel Acosta
Miguel Acosta is a professional boxer from Venezuela. He resides in the capital of Caracas. His nickname is "Aguacerito". He is the former WBA world lightweight champion after knocking out Paulus Moses on May 29, 2010...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
May 29, 2010 — Present 1
64   Brandon Rios
Brandon Rios
Brandon Lee Ríos is an undefeated Mexican-American/Native American boxer and the current WBA lightweight champion. Brandon is trained by former IBF super featherweight champion Roberto García.-Amateur career:...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
February 26, 2010 — Present 0
I   Robert Guerrero
Robert Guerrero
Robert Joseph Guerrero is a professional American boxer of Mexican descent. He is the former IBF Super Featherweight champion and a former two-time IBF featherweight champion of the world. Nicknamed The Ghost, Guerrero's record is 29 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw, and 2 no contest, with 18 of his wins...

– {{small|Interim Champion}}
April 9, 2011 — Present 0

Super lightweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Pinky Mitchell
Pinky Mitchell
Pinky Mitchell was an American boxer who was the first champion in the light welterweight division.-Early life:Born Myron Mitchell on January 1, 1899, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mitchell was nicknamed Pinky because of his father's statement, on seeing Mitchell in his crib as a baby, that "he's like a...

January 30, 1923 — March 27, 1925 2
2   James Herring March 27, 1925 — March 30, 1925s 0
3   Mushy Callahan
Mushy Callahan
Mushy Callahan was the ring name of Vincent Morris Scheer, a boxer and a champion in the light welterweight division.Callahan was born on November 3, 1904, in New York City. He took the ring name of Mushy Callahan and began boxing in 1924....

September 21, 1926 — February 18, 1930 2
4   Jack Kid Berg
Jack Kid Berg
Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg , was an English boxer born in the East End of London.-Biography:Judah Bergman was born in Romford Street near Cable Street, St George in the East, Stepney...

February 18, 1930 — April 24, 1931 7
5   Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...

April 24, 1931 — January 18, 1932 2
6   Johnny Jadick
Johnny Jadick
John J. Jadick, better known as Johnny Jadick was an American light welterweight boxer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- Professional career :...

January 18, 1932 — September 1932 {{small|(title discontinued)}} 1
7   Eddie Perkins
Eddie Perkins
Eddie Perkins was an American light welterweight boxer.-Professional career:Perkins turned professional in 1956 and captured the World Boxing Association light welterweight title with a decision win over Duilio Loi in 1962, but lost the belt in a rematch later that year...

September 14, 1962 — December 15, 1962 0
8   Duilio Loi
Duilio Loi
Duilio Loi was an Italian boxer who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the world junior welterweight championship. Loi fought from 1948 to 1962, and retired with a record of 115 wins , 3 losses and 8 draws...

December 15, 1962 — January 1963r 0
9   Roberto Cruz
Roberto Cruz
Roberto de la Cruz is a former Filipino professional boxer. Cruz won the WBA World Light Welterweight title in a career that spanned from 1955 to 1968.-Professional career:...

March 21, 1963 — June 15, 1963 0
10   Eddie Perkins (2) June 15, 1963 — January 18, 1965 2
11   Carlos Hernández January 18, 1965 — April 29, 1966 2
12   Sandro Lopopolo
Sandro Lopopolo
Sandro Lopopolo was an Italian light welterweight boxer, who won the silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and fought as a professional from 1961 to 1973. Lopopolo held the Italian, European and World light welterweight titles during his career...

April 29, 1966 — April 30, 1967 1
13   Takeshi Fuji
Takeshi Fuji
Takeshi Fuji is a former professional boxer from Hawaii. He is a former world super lightweight champion.- Biography :...

April 30, 1967 — December 12, 1968 1
14   Nicolino Locche
Nicolino Locche
Nicolino Locche was an Argentine boxer from Tunuyán, Mendoza. He was of Italian origin, with his ancestors coming from Sardinia...

December 12, 1968 — March 10, 1972 5
15   Alfonso Frazer March 10, 1972 — October 28, 1972 0
16   Antonio Cervantes
Antonio Cervantes
Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion. He successfully defended the title 16 times. Cervantes fought 21 world title fights, keeping the 140 pounds title for almost 8 years...

October 28, 1972 — March 6, 1976 10
17   Wilfred Benítez
Wilfred Benitez
Wilfred Benítez , is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history at the age of 17...

March 6, 1976 — July 1977s 2
18   Antonio Cervantes (2) June 25, 1977 — August 2, 1980 6
19   Aaron Pryor
Aaron Pryor
Aaron Pryor is a former boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio, and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He is the former world Junior Welterweight champion, and regarded as one of the greatest fighters in the history of the weight class.-Amateur career:Pryor, nicknamed The Hawk, had a record of...

August 2, 1980 — September 9, 1983r 8
20   Johnny Bumphus
Johnny Bumphus
Johnny 'Bump City' Bumphus , is a former boxer who was world light welterweight champion.-Professional career:...

January 22, 1984 — June 1, 1984 0
21   Gene Hatcher
Gene Hatcher
Ronald Hatcher Jr. , better known as "Gene Hatcher," is a former boxer who was world light welterweight champion. His nickname was "Mad Dog."-Amateur career:Hatcher was a United States Amateur Champion...

June 1, 1984 — July 21, 1985 1
22   Ubaldo Nestor Sacco
Ubaldo Nestor Sacco
Ubaldo Nestor Sacco was an Argentine boxer.- Professional career :Known as "Uby", Sacco turned pro in 1978 and won the World Boxing Association light welterweight title by TKO over Gene Hatcher in 1985. He lost the belt the following year to Patrizio Oliva by decision.- External links :*...

July 21, 1985 — March 15, 1986 0
23   Patrizio Oliva
Patrizio Oliva
Patrizio Oliva is an Italian former boxer, who won the gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as an amateur and the WBA World light welterweight title as a professional....

March 15, 1986 — July 4, 1987 2
24   Juan Martin Coggi
Juan Martin Coggi
Juan Martin Coggi is a former boxer from Argentina. A native of Santa Fe , which was also the birthplace of Carlos Monzón, Coggi was a three time world light welterweight champion. He had 75 wins, 5 losses and 2 draws, with 44 wins by knockout...

July 4, 1987 — August 17, 1990 4
25   Loreto Garza
Loreto Garza
Loreto Garza is a former American boxer.Garza started boxing amateur at 18 years old and did it for three years. He won the Golden Gloves all three years and was also on the US boxing team....

August 17, 1990 — June 14, 1991 1
26   Edwin Rosario
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...

June 14, 1991 — April 10, 1992 0
27   Akinobu Hiranaka
Akinobu Hiranaka
Akinobu Hiranaka is a former boxer in the Light welterweight division...

April 10, 1992 — September 9, 1992 0
28   Morris East
Morris East
Morris East is a retired Filipino boxing champion.As a teenager, East moved to Cebu City and was spotted by Lito Cortes who brought him to the Cebu Coliseum gym...

September 9, 1992 — January 12, 1993 0
29   Juan Martin Coggi (2) January 12, 1993 — September 17, 1994 6
30   Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
-External links:...

September 17, 1994 — January 13, 1996 2
31   Juan Martin Coggi (3) January 13, 1996 — August 16, 1996 0
32   Frankie Randall (2) August 16, 1996 — January 11, 1997 0
33   Khalid Rahilou
Khalid Rahilou
Khalid Rahilou Khalid Rahilou Khalid Rahilou (born June 19, 1966 in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, France was a French boxer of a Moroccan origin.-Professional career:Rahilou began his professional career in 1988 and won the WBA Light Welterweight title by defeating Frankie Randall by TKO in 1997...

January 11, 1997 — October 10, 1998 2
34   Sharmba Mitchell
Sharmba Mitchell
Sharmba David Mitchell , known professionally as Sharmba Mitchell, is a boxer who was WBA light welterweight champion.Mitchell, nicknamed "Little Big Man", is a native of Takoma Park, Maryland, but a resident of Washington, D.C.....

October 10, 1998 — September 16, 2000 4
35   Kostya Tszyu– {{small|Super Champion}} September 16, 2000 — 2003r 4
36   Diosbelys Hurtado
Diosbelys Hurtado
Diosbelys Hurtado is a Cuban-Spanish boxer.-Amateur career:Amateur Record: 221-20*1990 Represented Cuba at the World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru as a Featherweight. His results were:...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
May 11, 2002 — October 19, 2002 0
37   Vivian Harris
Vivian Harris
"Vicious" Vivian Harris is a Guyanese professional boxer who was born in Georgetown, Guyana and now resides in Brooklyn, New York...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
October 19, 2002 — June 25, 2005 3
38   Carlos Maussa
Carlos Maussa
Carlos "El Apóstol" Maussa is a former professional boxer and light welterweight titleholder. Turning pro in 2000, at the age of 29, Maussa won two titles and fought in several significant fights until his retirement at age 38.Maussa was raised in the Santa Fe neighborhood of Montería, a city...

June 25, 2005 — November 26, 2005 0
39 Ricky Hatton
Ricky Hatton
Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a former British professional boxer, and currently a promoter....

November 26, 2005 — May 4, 2006r 1
40   Souleymane M'baye
Souleymane M'baye
Souleymane M'baye is a professional boxer and is the former WBA super-lightweight champion. He won the vacated title by a fourth technical knockout on September 2, 2006 against Raul Horacio Balbi. His current record is 37 wins, three losses and a draw, with 21 wins coming by way of knockout...

September 2, 2006 — July 21, 2007 1
41 Gavin Rees
Gavin Rees
Gavin Rees is a Welsh professional boxer. Nicknamed "The Rock", Rees is the current EBU Lightweight Champion, and former WBA super-lightweight World Champion...

July 21, 2007 — March 22, 2008 0
42   Andreas Kotelnik March 22, 2008 — July 18, 2009 2
43 Amir Khan
Amir Khan (boxer)
Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....

July 18, 2009 — Present 3
I   Marcos Rene Maidana
Marcos René Maidana
Marcos Maidana is an Argentine professional boxer from José Leon Suarez, Buenos Aires. He is and the current WBA light welterweight champion. His only professional losses have come against Andreas Kotelnik and Amir Khan both by Decision.-Fight with Kotelnik:On February 2, 2009, Andreas Kotelnik...

– {{small|Interim Champion}}
April 9, 2011 — Present 0

Welterweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Jack Britton
Jack Britton
Jack Britton was three-time world welterweight boxing champion, born William J. Breslin in Clinton, New York....

March 17, 19191 — November 1, 1922 14
2   Mickey Walker November 1, 1922 — May 20, 1926 6
3   Pete Latzo
Pete Latzo
Pete Latzo was the boxing world welterweight champion from 1926 to 1927. Latzo fought all the top welterweights of his era and won the title from hall of famer Mickey Walker on May 20, 1926. He lost the crown to Joe Dundee on June 3, 1927.After losing the welter crown Latzo invaded the heavier...

May 20, 1926 — June 3, 1927 1
4   Joe Dundee
Joe Dundee
Salvatore Lazzara, better known by his boxing alias Joe Dundee, was an American boxer. His career began with two straight losses in four-round bouts. Nevertheless, Dundee continued boxing....

June 3, 1927 — November 18, 1927s 1
5   Jackie Fields
Jackie Fields
Jackie Fields was an American professional boxer who won two world championship titles.-Personal life:...

March 25, 1929 — May 9, 1930 1
6   Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson (boxer)
Cecil Lewis "Jack" Thompson was an American boxer who twice held the welterweight championship of the world. Born Cecil Thompson, his name was changed when he decided to become a professional fighter...

May 9, 1930 — September 5, 1930 0
7   Tommy Freeman September 5, 1930 — April 14, 1931 0
8   Jack Thompson (2) April 14, 1931 — October 23, 1931 0
9   Lou Brouillard
Lou Brouillard
Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division....

October 23, 1931 — January 28, 1932 0
10   Jackie Fields (2) January 28, 1932 — February 22, 1933 0
11   Young Corbett III
Young Corbett III
Young Corbett III was the world Welterweight boxing champion. He was born Raffaele Capabianca Giordano and began boxing in 1919 as Young Corbett III while still a 14-year-old "newsboy."...

February 22, 1933 — May 29, 1933 0
12   Jimmy McLarnin
Jimmy McLarnin
James McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxer who became two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.-Background:McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, into a large Methodist family who emigrated...

May 29, 1933 — May 28, 1934 0
13   Barney Ross
Barney Ross
Barney Ross , born Beryl David Rosofsky, was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II.-Early life:...

May 28, 1934 — September 17, 1934 0
14   Jimmy McLarnin (2) September 17, 1934 — May 28, 1935 0
15   Barney Ross (2) May 28, 1935 — May 31, 1938 2
16   Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...

May 31, 1938 — October 4, 1940 18
17   Fritzie Zivic
Fritzie Zivic
Fritzie Zivic , born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich , was an American boxer.-Biography:...

October 4, 1940 — July 29, 1941 1
18   Freddie Cochrane
Freddie 'Red' Cochrane
Freddie 'Red' Cochrane , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division who became World Champion in 1941 in that class...

July 29, 1941 — February 1, 1946 0
19   Marty Servo
Marty Servo
Mario Severino, "Marty Servo" was the former world welterweight boxing champion. Servo began boxing in the mid-1930s. He became a professional boxer in 1938 and was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1989.-Amateur career:Servo had an impressive amateur career...

February 1, 1946 — September 1946r 0
20   Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson was an African-American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...

December 20, 1946 — August 1950r 5
21   Johnny Bratton
Johnny Bratton
Johnny Bratton, also known as Honey Boy Bratton, , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division...

March 14, 1951 — May 18, 1951 0
22   Kid Gavilan
Kid Gavilan
Gerardo González , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former world welterweight champion from Cuba...

May 18, 1951 — October 20, 1954 7
23   Johnny Saxton
Johnny Saxton
Johnny Saxton was an American professional boxer in the welterweight division. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, learned to box in a Brooklyn orphanage and had an amateur career winning 31 of 33 fights, twice becoming World Welterweight Champion.- Professional career :Saxton turned professional...

October 20, 1954 — April 1, 1955 3
24   Tony DeMarco
Tony DeMarco
Tony DeMarco is a boxer and world welterweight champion. He was born in Boston and grew up in that city's North End community. Tony DeMarco's actual birth name is Leonardo Liotta. Tony’s father Vincent and mother Giacomina came from Sicily.To box in the league, the minimum age was 18...

April 1, 1955 — June 10, 1955 0
25   Carmen Basilio
Carmen Basilio
Carmine Basilio better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion...

June 10, 1955 — March 14, 1956 1
26   Johnny Saxton (2) March 14, 1956 — September 12, 1956 0
27   Carmen Basilio (2) September 12, 1956 — 1957r 1
28   Virgil Akins
Virgil Akins
Virgil Akins was an American boxer who won the undisputed Welterweight Championship of the World in 1958. Nicknamed ‘Honeybear’, Akins was the first World Champion boxer from St. Louis.-Career:...

June 6, 1958 — December 5, 1958 0
29   Don Jordan
Don Jordan
Don Jordan was a boxer born in Los Angeles, California and was the undisputed Welterweight Champion of the World from 1958 to 1960. His nickname was ‘Geronimo’...

December 5, 1958 — May 27, 1960 2
30   Benny Paret
Benny Paret
Benny "the Kid" Paret, born Bernardo Paret , born in Santa Clara, Cuba, was a Cuban welterweight boxer. Paret won the world welterweight title twice in the early 1960s and died in 1962 following an unsuccessful attempt to defend the crown in what is considered to be the first ring death witnessed...

May 27, 1960 — April 1, 1961 1
31   Emile Griffith
Emile Griffith
Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...

April 1, 1961 — September 30, 1961 0
32   Benny Paret (2) September 30, 1961 — March 24, 1962 0
33   Emile Griffith (2) March 24, 1962 — March 21, 1963 0
34   Luis Manuel Rodríguez
Luis Manuel Rodriguez
Luis Manuel Rodríguez was a professional boxing champion. Known as "El Feo", Rodriguez began his career in pre-Castro Havana. In Cuba, Rodriguez twice defeated the ill-fated future welterweight champion Benny Kid Paret.After the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez campaigned in the United States...

March 21, 1963 — June 8, 1963 0
35   Emile Griffith (3) June 8, 1963 — April 25, 1966r 4
36   Curtis Cokes
Curtis Cokes
Curtis Cokes is a former boxer from Dallas, Texas, United States. Cokes was world welterweight champion, and he was famous for his training regimen, which he also imposed on other boxers training with him.-Pre-championship career:...

August 24, 1966 — April 18, 1969 5
37   José Nápoles
José Napoles
José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban-Mexican boxer and former world welterweight champion, who is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division...

April 18, 1969 — December 3, 1970 3
38   Billy Backus
Billy Backus
Billy Backus, born March 5, 1943 in Canastota, New York, is a former world boxing champion. In the summer of 2006 Backus retired from his correctional facility job and moved to South Carolina.- Early boxing career :...

December 3, 1970 — June 4, 1971 0
39   José Nápoles (2) June 4, 1971 — May 1975r 9
40   Ángel Espada
Angel Espada
Ángel Espada is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. He was the WBA's world Welterweight champion in 1975-76. A music lover, Espada also organized, during the late 1970s, a salsa orchestra...

June 28, 1975 — July 17, 1976 1
41   José Cuevas
Jose Cuevas
José Isidro "Pipino" Cuevas González is a Mexican former world champion boxer at the welterweight division.-Professional career:...

July 17, 1976 — August 2, 1980 11
42   Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...

August 2, 1980 — September 16, 1981 3
43   Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

September 16, 1981 — November 9, 1982r 1
44   Donald Curry
Donald Curry
Donald Curry is a retired boxer from Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Nicknamed the "Lone Star Cobra," Curry was the Undisputed World Welterweight Champion and the WBC Super Welterweight Champion.-Amateur career:...

February 13, 1983 — September 27, 1986 7
45 Lloyd Honeyghan
Lloyd Honeyghan
Lloyd Honeyghan is a retired British boxer. Born in Jamaica, he was WBC/WBA & IBF welterweight champion from 1986 to 1987. and WBC welterweight champion from 1988 to 1989....

September 27, 1986 — 1987r 0
46   Mark Breland
Mark Breland
Mark Anthony Breland is a former world champion boxer, who won five New York Golden Gloves Titles and a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics...

February 6, 1987 — August 22, 1987 0
47   Marlon Starling
Marlon Starling
Marlon "Magic Man" Starling was a two-time US world champion boxer.Starling was born in Hartford, CT in 1959. He turned professional in 1979. After 25 straight wins, he lost his first fight. He lost a 12 round decision to Donald Curry in 1982. Starling had a rematch with Curry in 1984, challenging...

August 22, 1987 — July 29, 1988 2
48   Tomas Molinares July 29, 1988 — December 12, 1988r 0
49   Mark Breland (2) February 4, 1989 — July 8, 1990 4
50   Aaron Davis
Aaron Davis
Aaron Davis was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.- Professional career :...

July 8, 1990 — January 19, 1991 0
51   Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes.-Amateur career:...

January 19, 1991 — October 31, 1992 2
52   Crisanto España
Crisanto España
Crisanto España was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.España fought out of Belfast, Northern Ireland and turned pro in 1984. España impressively won his first 30 fights, including the WBA Welterweight Title with an upset TKO in the 8th round over Meldrick Taylor in 1992...

October 31, 1992 — June 4, 1994 2
53   Ike Quartey
Ike Quartey
Ike "Bazooka" Quartey is a former WBA Welterweight champion boxer. He has fought numerous world champion boxers including Oscar De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas, Vernon Forrest and Ronald "Winky" Wright.-Biography:...

June 4, 1994 — 1998s 7
54   James Page
James Page (boxer)
James Page was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.Nicknamed "Mighty Quinn", Page turned pro in 1990 and beat Andrei Pestriaev in 1998 to capture the Vacant WBA Welterweight Title. He defended the title three times until he was stripped, in 2000, for failing to turn up for a...

October 10, 1998 — 2000s 3
55   Andrew Lewis
Andrew Lewis (boxing)
Andrew Lewis is a professional boxer in the Middleweight division and is the former WBA World Welterweight Champion.-Personal life:...

February 17, 2001 — March 30, 2002 2
56   Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga , is a Nicaraguan professional boxer. He is the former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and the former WBC light middleweight champion. He holds a record of 29-8 with 23 knockouts and 1 draw 1 no contest. He was featured for the first time on the cover of Ring Magazine on the December...

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
March 30, 2002 — December 13, 2003 2
57   Jose Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera is an American professional boxer in the super welterweight division.His record is 39-6-1 . He is a former WBA welterweight and WBA world super welterweight champion. He is of Puerto Rican descent....

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
September 13, 2003 — April 2, 2005 0
58   Cory Spinks
Cory Spinks
Corey Spinks is a professional boxer. He is a former IBF Light middleweight champion, and a former Undisputed Welterweight Champion....

 – {{small|Super Champion}}
December 13, 2003 — February 5, 2005 2
59   Zab Judah
Zab Judah
Zabdiel Judah is an American professional boxer. Judah has won five world titles between the junior welterweight and welterweight divisions, and is a former undisputed welterweight champion....

– {{small|Super Champion}}
February 5, 2005 — January 7, 2006 1
60   Luis Collazo
Luis Collazo
Luis Collazo is a boxer in the welterweight division. His boxing record is 31-4 . He is a former WBA welterweight champion.- Professional career :...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
April 2, 2005 — May 13, 2006 1
61   Ricky Hatton
Ricky Hatton
Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a former British professional boxer, and currently a promoter....

May 13, 2006 — August 31, 2006r 0
62   Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto
Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and the reigning WBA light middleweight champion. He is the younger brother of contender Jose Miguel Cotto and cousin of Abner Cotto...

December 2, 2006 — July 26, 2008 4
63   Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito Montiel is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former WBA, WBO, & IBF welterweight champion...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
July 26, 2008 — January 24, 2009 0
64   Yuriy Nuzhnenko
Yuriy Nuzhnenko
Yuriy Nuzhnenko is a Ukrainian boxer who captured the vacant WBA Interim Welterweight belt on December 8, 2007 in Le Cannet, France against Frédéric Klose of France by twelve-round unanimous decision.-Amateur career:*Amateur record: 190-67...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
October 3, 2008 — April 10, 2009 0
65   Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley
“Sugar” Shane Mosley is an American professional boxer from Pomona, California who has held world titles in three weight divisions.-Amateur career:Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
January 24, 2009 — May 22, 2010s 0
66   Vyacheslav Senchenko
Vyacheslav Senchenko
Vyacheslav Senchenko is a professional boxer from Ukraine. He resides in Donetsk. His professional record includes 30 fights: 30 wins...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
April 10, 2009 — Present 2
I   Souleymane M'Baye
Souleymane M'baye
Souleymane M'baye is a professional boxer and is the former WBA super-lightweight champion. He won the vacated title by a fourth technical knockout on September 2, 2006 against Raul Horacio Balbi. His current record is 37 wins, three losses and a draw, with 21 wins coming by way of knockout...

– {{small|Interim Champion}}
May 28, 2010 — Present 0

Super welterweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Denny Moyer
Denny Moyer
Denny Moyer was an American boxer who held the world light middleweight title between 1962 and 1963. He finished his career with a 97–38–4 record.-Early life:...

October 20, 1962 — April 29, 1963 1
2   Ralph Dupas
Ralph Dupas
Ralph Dupas was a boxer from New Orleans who won the world light middleweight championship.-Early boxing career:...

April 29, 1963 — September 7, 1963 1
3   Sandro Mazzinghi September 7, 1963 — June 18, 1965 3
4   Nino Benvenuti June 18, 1965 — June 25, 1966 1
5   Ki-Soo Kim June 25, 1966 — May 25, 1968 2
6   Sandro Mazzinghi (2) May 25, 1968 — October 1968s 1
7   Freddie Little
Freddie Little
Freddie Little Freddie Little Freddie Little (born 1936-04-25 in Picayune, MS, is a former American boxer at light middleweight.- Professional career :Little turned pro in 1957 and challenged for the World, WBC, and WBA light middleweight title against Ki-Soo Kim, but lost by split decision in...

March 17, 1969 — July 9, 1970 2
8   Carmelo Bossi
Carmelo Bossi
Carmelo Bossi was an Italian boxer who held the European welterweight and world junior middleweight titles. Bossi boxed from 1961 to 1971 and his final overall record was 40 wins , 8 defeats and 3 draws.- Amateur career :...

July 9, 1970 — October 31, 1971 1
9   Koichi Wajima
Koichi Wajima
Koichi Wajima was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division. He is a former WBC and WBA champion.- Childhood and Early Career :...

October 31, 1971 — June 4, 1974 6
10   Oscar Albarado
Oscar Albarado
Oscar Albarado was an American boxer. He competed in the light middleweight division.- Professional career :...

June 4, 1974 — January 21, 1975 1
11   Koichi Wajima (2) January 21, 1975 — June 7, 1975 0
12   Jae-Doo Yuh
Jae-Doo Yuh
Jae-Doo Yuh is a former boxer from South Korea.-Pro career:In 1971, Yuh won the Orient and Pacific Boxing Federation middleweight title....

June 7, 1975 — February 17, 1976 1
13   Koichi Wajima (3) February 17, 1976 — May 18, 1976 0
14   José Duran May 18, 1976 — October 8, 1976 0
15   Miguel Angel Castellini
Miguel Angel Castellini
Miguel Angel Castellini is a former Argentine professional boxer. Castellini, who was active as a professional from 1965 to 1980, is most notable for having held the WBA World Light Middleweight title....

October 8, 1976 — March 5, 1977 0
16   Eddie Gazo
Eddie Gazo
Eddie Gazo is a former professional boxer in the super welterweight division.-Pro career:...

March 5, 1977 — August 9, 1978 3
17   Masashi Kudo
Masashi Kudo
Masashi Kudo is a former professional boxer. He was the WBA light middleweight champion from 1978-1979.- Biography :...

August 9, 1978 — August 24, 1979 3
18   Ayub Kalule August 24, 1979 — June 25, 1981 4
19   Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

June 25, 1981 — 1981r 0
20   Tadashi Mihara
Tadashi Mihara
is a former professional boxer who competed as a light middleweight throughout his career.Mihara began his boxing career when he was a third grader of the high school. He won the title of the All-Japan Amateur Boxing Championships in the light middleweight division in 1977. He also got the group...

November 7, 1981 — February 2, 1982 0
21   Davey Moore February 2, 1982 — June 16, 1983 3
22   Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

June 16, 1983 — November 1983r 0
23   Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum is a retired boxer. Nicknamed "The Body Snatcher" for his fierce body punching. McCallum won world titles in three weight classes.-Amateur career:Claimed an amateur record of 240-10...

November 19, 1984 — November 1987r 6
24   Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions...

November 21, 1987 — 1990r 3
25   Gilbert Dele
Gilbert Delé
Gilbert Delé was a French professional boxer. He competed in the super welterweight division.-Career:...

February 23, 1991 — October 1, 1991 1
26   Vinny Pazienza October 1, 1991 — 1992r 0
27   Julio César Vásquez
Julio Cesar Vasquez
Julio César Vásquez is a professional boxer best known to have held a WBA junior middleweight title. Vasquez, known as "El Zurdo" which means lefty as he is a southpaw, turned pro in 1986 and captured the Vacant WBA Light Middleweight Title by KO'ing little-known Hitoshi Kamiyama in 1992...

December 21, 1991 — March 4, 1995 10
28   Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

March 4, 1995 — June 1995r 0
29   Carl Daniels
Carl Daniels
Carl Bryant Daniels , is a professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division.- Amateur :Southpaw Daniels won the junior world championships 1987 and the Golden Gloves at flyweight....

June 16, 1995 — December 16, 1995 0
30   Julio César Vásquez (2) December 16, 1995 — August 21, 1996 0
31   Laurent Boudouani
Laurent Boudouani
Laurent Boudouani is retired professional boxer. He is a former WBA world light middleweight champion and a welterweight silver medal winner at the 1988 Olympics.-Olympic results:*1st round bye...

August 21, 1996 — March 6, 1999 4
32   David Reid
David Reid (boxer)
David Terrell Reid is a former boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Amateur career:Reid had a stellar amateur boxing career, culminating with a come-from-behind, one-punch knock out win to secure a gold medal at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...

March 6, 1999 — March 3, 2000 2
33   Félix Trinidad
Félix Trinidad
Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, considered one of the best in Puerto Rico's history. After winning five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico, he debuted as a professional when he was 17. He won his first world championship when he defeated Maurice Blocker...

March 3, 2000 — May 12, 2001r 2
34   Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas is a retired Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and "El Feroz"...

September 22, 2001 — September 14, 2002 2
35   Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
September 14, 2002 — September 13, 2003 1
36   Santiago Samaniego
Santiago Samaniego
Santiago Ryce Samaniego is a professional boxer in the super welterweight division.- Professional career :...

 – {{small|Regular Champion}}
September 14, 2002 — March 1, 2003 0
37   Alejandro Garcia– {{small|Regular Champion}} March 1, 2003 — December 13, 2003 1
38   Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley
“Sugar” Shane Mosley is an American professional boxer from Pomona, California who has held world titles in three weight divisions.-Amateur career:Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
September 13, 2003 — March 13, 2004 0
39   Travis Simms
Travis Simms
Travis Simms is a professional American boxer in the super welterweight division.-Background:Simms is a native of the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut. His childhood street bears his name "Travis Simms Way". He is currently a member of the Norwalk Common Council...

– {{small|Regular champion}}
December 13, 2003 — 2005s 1
40   Ronald Wright
Winky Wright
Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright is an American boxer, the former undisputed world light middleweight champion and a current middleweight contender....

 – {{small|Super champion}}
March 13, 2004 — 2005r 1
41   Alejandro Garcia (2) May 21, 2005 — May 6, 2006 1
42   José Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera is an American professional boxer in the super welterweight division.His record is 39-6-1 . He is a former WBA welterweight and WBA world super welterweight champion. He is of Puerto Rican descent....

May 6, 2006 — January 6, 2007 0
43   Travis Simms (2) January 6, 2007 — July 7, 2007 0
44   Joachim Alcine
Joachim Alcine
Joachim Alcine is a Haitian-Canadian professional boxer fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, where he now resides.-Pro career:...

July 7, 2007 — July 11, 2008 1
45   Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos (boxer)
Daniel Santos is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur Santos represented Puerto Rico in international events, including the 1990 and 1992 Junior World Championships, Pan American Boxing Tournament, Goodwill Games, 1995 Pan American Games and the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he won a...

July 11, 2008 — November 14, 2009 0
46   Yuri Foreman
Yuri Foreman
Yuri Foreman is a Belarusian-born Israeli-American professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super welterweight champion...

November 14, 2009 — June 5, 2010 0
47   Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto
Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and the reigning WBA light middleweight champion. He is the younger brother of contender Jose Miguel Cotto and cousin of Abner Cotto...

– {{small|Super Champion}}
June 5, 2010 — October 9, 2010s 0
48   Austin Trout
Austin Trout
Austin Trout is an undefeated professional boxer and the current WBA light middleweight champion.-Amateur career:In 2004 Austin was the U.S...

– {{small|Regular Champion}}
February 5, 2011 — Present 0

Middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Johnny Wilson
Johnny Wilson (boxer)
Johnny Wilson was born Giovanni Panica on March 23, 1893 in New York City. He was a professional boxer who fought from 1911 until 1926. The highlight of Wilson's career came when he captured the world middleweight championship by defeating Mike O'Dowd by decision over 12 rounds on May 6, 1920...

May 6, 19201 — August 31, 1923 4
2   Harry Greb
Harry Greb
Harry Greb was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s & 20s could provide him, frequently squaring...

August 31, 1923 — February 26, 1926 6
3   Tiger Flowers
Tiger Flowers
Theodore Flowers became the first African-American middleweight boxing champion, defeating Harry Greb in 1926. Known as "Tiger", he began boxing professionally in 1918 at the age of 23 while working at a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant...

February 26, 1926 — December 3, 1926 1
4   Mickey Walker December 3, 1926 — 1930r 4
5   William Jones January 25, 1932 — June 11, 1932 1
6   Marcel Thil
Marcel Thil
-Career:Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen...

June 11, 1932 — 1932r 0
7   Lou Brouillard
Lou Brouillard
Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division....

October 30, 1933 — October 30, 1933 0
8   Vince Dundee
Vince Dundee
Vince Dundee , the former New York State middleweight champion of the world was born Vincenzo Lazzara in Sicily in 1904.-Personal:The Lazzara family emigrated from Sicily to the United States and lived in Baltimore...

October 30, 1933 — September 11, 1934 2
9   Teddy Yarosz
Teddy Yarosz
Teddy Yarosz was an American athlete in boxing. He held the world middleweight boxing championship during 1934-1935.-Personal life:Yarosz was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania. His brother Tommy Yarosz also became a boxer....

September 11, 1934 — September 19, 1935 0
10   Eddie Babe Risko
Eddie Babe Risko
Henry Pelkowski, better known as Babe Risko, Eddie Risko, and Sailor Pulaski was Middleweight boxing champion of the world...

September 19, 1935 — July 11, 1936 1
11   Freddie Steele
Freddie Steele
Freddie Steele was a boxer and film actor born Frederick Earle Burgett in Seattle, Washington. He was recognized as middleweight champion of the world between 1936 and 1938. Steele was nicknamed "The Tacoma Assassin" and was trained by Jack Connor, Johnny Babnick, and Ray Arcel, while in New York...

July 11, 1936 — July 26, 1938 5
12   Al Hostak
Al Hostak
Albert Paul Hostak , nicknamed "the Savage Slav," was an American-born middleweight boxer who fought from 1932-1949. Hostak twice held the National Boxing Association Middleweight title between 1938 and 1940...

July 26, 1938 — November 11, 1938 0
13   Solly Krieger
Solly Krieger
Solly Krieger was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1928-41.-Boxing career:A Golden Gloves amateur champion, Krieger turned professional in 1928....

November 11, 1938 — June 27, 1939 0
14   Al Hostak (2) June 27, 1939 — July 19, 1940 1
15   Tony Zale
Tony Zale
Anthony Florian Zaleski was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel." In addition, he had the reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win, reinforcing that nickname...

July 19, 1940 — July 16, 1947 4
16   Rocky Graziano
Rocky Graziano
Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City , was an Italian American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch...

July 16, 1947 — June 10, 1948 0
17   Tony Zale (2) June 10, 1948 — September 21, 1948 0
18   Marcel Cerdan
Marcel Cerdan
Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...

September 21, 1948 — June 16, 1949 0
19   Jake LaMotta
Jake LaMotta
Giacobbe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former American world middleweight champion boxer...

June 16, 1949 — February 14, 1951 2
20   Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson was an African-American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...

February 14, 1951 — July 10, 1951 0
21 Randy Turpin
Randy Turpin
Randolph Adolphus Turpin known as the Leamington Larruper, was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:...

July 10, 1951 – September 12, 1951 0
22   Sugar Ray Robinson (2) September 12, 1951 — December 1952r 2
23   Carl Olson
Bobo Olson
Carl Olson was an American boxer. He was the world middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during the 1950s, although he is probably best remembered for his three knockout losses against Sugar Ray Robinson.His nickname, Bobo,...

October 21, 1953 – December 9, 1955 3
24   Sugar Ray Robinson (3) December 9, 1955 — January 2, 1957 1
25   Gene Fullmer
Gene Fullmer
Gene Fullmer is a former American middleweight boxer and world champion.-Professional career:Fullmer began his professional career in 1951 and won his first 29 fights, 19 by knockout...

January 2, 1957 – May 1, 1957 0
26   Sugar Ray Robinson (4) May 1, 1957 — September 23, 1957 0
27   Carmen Basilio
Carmen Basilio
Carmine Basilio better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion...

September 23, 1957 — March 25, 1958 0
28   Sugar Ray Robinson (5) March 25, 1958 — January 22, 1960 0
29   Paul Pender
Paul Pender
Paul Pender was an American middleweight boxer.-Early life:He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of William and Anna Pender...

January 22, 1960 — July 11, 1961 3
30 Terry Downes
Terry Downes
Terry Downes is a retired British middleweight boxer. He was nicknamed the "Paddington Express" for his aggressive fighting style. As of 2008, Downes was Britain’s oldest surviving former world champion...

July 11, 1961 — April 7, 1962 0
31   Paul Pender (2) April 7, 1962 — May 7, 1963r 0
32   Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...

October 23, 1962 — December 7, 1963 2
33   Joey Giardello
Joey Giardello
Carmine Orlando Tilelli was an American boxer who was the middleweight champion of the world from 1963 to 1965, and was better known by his professional pseudonym of Joey Giardello.-Early life:...

December 7, 1963 — October 21, 1965 1
34   Dick Tiger (2) October 21, 1965 — April 25, 1966 0
35   Emile Griffith
Emile Griffith
Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...

April 25, 1966 — April 17, 1967 2
36   Nino Benvenuti April 17, 1967 — September 29, 1967 0
37   Emile Griffith (2) September 29, 1967 — March 4, 1968 0
38   Nino Benvenuti (2) March 4, 1968 — May 23, 1970 4
39   Carlos Monzón
Carlos Monzón
Carlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....

May 23, 1970 — August 1977r 14
40   Rodrigo Valdez
Rodrigo Valdez
Rodrigo Valdéz is a former boxer from Colombia who was a two-time world middleweight champion and former undisputed middleweight champion of the world whose rivalry with Carlos Monzón has long been considered among the most legendary boxing rivalries. Valdez was trained by International Boxing...

November 5, 1977 — April 22, 1978 0
41   Hugo Pastor Corro April 22, 1978 — June 30, 1979 2
42   Vito Antuofermo
Vito Antuofermo
Vito Antuofermo is an Italian-American actor who is also a former world Middleweight boxing champion.-Background:Antuofermo was born in Italy, in the town of Palo del Colle, which is located about 15 km inland from the city of Bari. but his family moved to the United States when he was 17...

June 30, 1979 — March 16, 1980 1
43 Alan Minter
Alan Minter
Alan Minter is a former middleweight world champion boxer.-Amateur career:Minter was the 1971 ABA Middleweight Champion. He won the bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games...

March 16, 1980 — September 27, 1980 1
44   Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler
Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former professional boxer who was undisputed world middleweight champion between 1980 and 1987. Hagler holds the distinction of having the highest KO% of all middleweight champions at 78%...

September 27, 1980 — April 6, 1987s 12
45   Sumbu Kalambay
Sumbu Kalambay
Sumbu "Patrizio" Kalambay is a Zaire-Italian former professional boxer who held the WBA middleweight championship. He was born in Zaire, moving to Italy during his youth, which is where he still resides.-Professional career:...

October 23, 1987 — March 1988s 3
46   Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum is a retired boxer. Nicknamed "The Body Snatcher" for his fierce body punching. McCallum won world titles in three weight classes.-Amateur career:Claimed an amateur record of 240-10...

May 10, 1989 — 1991r 3
47   Reggie Johnson April 22, 1992 — October 1, 1993 3
48   John David Jackson
John David Jackson (boxer)
John David Jackson , is a former professional boxer who held world titles in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions, and later became a boxing trainer after his career ended.-Professional Career:...

October 1, 1993 — 1994r 0
49   Jorge Castro
Jorge Castro (boxer)
Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro , is an Argentine boxer and former middleweight champion of the world, who is best known for his second defense of the title against John David Jackson in 1994....

August 12, 1994 — December 19, 1995 4
50   Shinji Takehara
Shinji Takehara
was a professional boxer in the Middleweight division. Takehara was Japan's only boxer to capture a World Middleweight Title, which is also the highest weight class in which a Japanese boxer has captured a World Title....

December 19, 1995 — June 24, 1996 0
51   William Joppy
William Joppy
William Torelle Joppy is an American middleweight boxer. Joppy held the WBA middleweight title on two occasions. He first became the WBA champion in June 1996 by stopping defender Shinji Takehara in Japan with a flurry of punches in the ninth round. He then would make a couple defenses of his crown...

June 24, 1996 — August 23, 1997 2
52   Julio César Green
Julio Cesar Green
Julio Cesar Green was a professional boxer of height 173 cm in the middleweight division....

August 23, 1997 — January 31, 1998 0
53   William Joppy (2) January 31, 1998 — May 12, 2001 5
54   Felix Trinidad
Félix Trinidad
Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, considered one of the best in Puerto Rico's history. After winning five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico, he debuted as a professional when he was 17. He won his first world championship when he defeated Maurice Blocker...

May 12, 2001 — September 29, 2001 0
55   Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins Jr, known as The Executioner is an American boxer and the current Ring Magazine and WBC light heavyweight champion...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
September 29, 2001 — July 16, 2005 6
56   William Joppy (3) – {{small|Regular champion}} November 17, 2001 — December 13, 2003 {{small|(lost to super champion)}} 1
57   Maselino Masoe
Maselino Masoe
Maselino Francis Masoe is a Samoan boxer, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.- Amateur Highlights :...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
May 1, 2004 — March 11, 2006 0
58   Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor is an American professional boxer and former undisputed middleweight champion. He made his professional boxing debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez and William Joppy...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
July 16, 2005 — December 14, 2006s 1
59   Felix Sturm
Felix Sturm
Felix Sturm is a German boxer and current WBA middleweight Super champion of Bosniak descent. Sturm was born and raised in Leverkusen, Germany, but both of his parents were immigrants from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Professional career :On 27 January 2001, Sturm made his debut as a...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
March 11, 2006 — July 15, 2006 0
60   Javier Castillejo
Javier Castillejo
Francisco Javier Castillejo is a professional boxer from Spain. He is the former WBC light middleweight champion and former WBA middleweight champion. He has fought against stars Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Sturm, Fernando Vargas, Julio Cesar Vasquez, Michael Rask, and Mariano Natalio Carrera...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
July 15, 2006 — April 28, 2007 1
61   Felix Sturm (2)– {{small|Super champion}} April 28, 2007 — September 4, 2010s 7
62   Gennady Golovkin– {{small|Regular champion}} August 14, 2010 — Present 0
I   Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam is a French-Cameroonian boxer and the current interim WBA World Middleweight champion. The Ring Magazine currently rates N'Dam N'Jikam at number nine in the Middleweight division, BoxRec ranks him at number four.-Amateur:Ndam Njikam won the silver medal in the Middleweight...

– {{small|Interim champion}}
October 30, 2010 — Present 0

Super middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Chong-Pal Park
Chong-Pal Park
Chong-Pal Park was a South Korean boxer in the super middleweight division....

December 6, 1987 — May 23, 1988 1
2   Fulgencio Obelmejias
Fulgencio Obelmejias
Fulgencio Obelmejias , sometimes known also as Fully Obel is a Venezuelan former boxer, who was world Super-Middleweight champion.-Biography:Obelmejias was born in San José de Río Chico...

May 23, 1988 — May 28, 1989 0
3   In-Chul Baek May 28, 1989 — March 30, 1990 2
4   Christophe Tiozzo
Christophe Tiozzo
Christophe Tiozzo was a French boxer, who won a Light Middleweight Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics...

March 30, 1990 — April 5, 1991 2
5   Víctor Córdoba
Víctor Córdoba
Víctor Córdoba was a Panamanian boxer in the super middleweight division. Known as "Toby", Mitchell had a successful career and captured a world class title....

April 5, 1991 — September 12, 1992 1
6   Michael Nunn
Michael Nunn
Michael Nunn is a former American boxer. Nicknamed "Second to Nunn," he was a 6' 2" southpaw with great speed. Nunn was the IBF middleweight champion and the WBA super middleweight champion...

September 12, 1992 — February 26, 1994 4
7   Steve Little February 26, 1994 — August 12, 1994 0
8   Frankie Liles
Frankie Liles
Frank Liles is an American former boxer who held the WBA super middleweight title.- Amateur career :Liles won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games...

August 12, 1994 — June 12, 1999 7
9   Byron Mitchell
Byron Mitchell
Byron Tarone Mitchell was an American boxer of height in the super middleweight division.-Amateur career:Mitchell was the 1996 National Golden Gloves Middleweight champion.-Pro career:...

June 12, 1999 — April 8, 2000 1
10   Bruno Girard
Bruno Girard
Bruno Girard was a French boxer at super middleweight and light heavyweight.The light-hitting Girard turned pro in 1991 and challenged Byron Mitchell for WBA Super Middleweight Title in 1999, in his first US fight...

April 8, 2000 — 2000s 1
11   Byron Mitchell (2) March 3, 2001 — March 15, 2003 2
12   Sven Ottke
Sven Ottke
Sven Ottke, known as "The Phantom", is a German former professional boxer who was the IBF/WBA super middleweight champion...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
March 15, 2003 — March 27, 2004r 4
13   Anthony Mundine
Anthony Mundine
Anthony Mundine is an Australian professional boxer and former rugby league footballer.He is the current interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, former two-time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, former IBO Middleweight Champion and New South Wales State of Origin representative footballer....

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
September 3, 2003 — May 5, 2004 1
14   Manny Siaca
Manny Siaca
Manuel Alejandro Siaca, born , is a Puerto Rican boxer at super middleweight.Siaca was born in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. He turned pro in 1997 and challenged Bruno Girard in 2000 for the WBA Super Middleweight Title, but lost a split decision...

May 5, 2004 — November 12, 2004 0
15   Mikkel Kessler
Mikkel Kessler
Mikkel Kessler is a Danish professional boxer and former two time WBA & WBC Super Middleweight champion. In his professional career he has a record of 44–2 with 33 knockouts...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
November 12, 2004 — November 3, 2007 4
16   Anthony Mundine (2) – {{small|Regular champion}} March 7, 2007 — May 27, 2008r 4
17   Joe Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....

 – {{small|Super champion}}
November 3, 2007 — September 2008r 0
18   Mikkel Kessler (2) – {{small|Regular Champion/Became Super Champion}} June 21, 2008 — November 21, 2009 2
19   Dimitri Sartison
Dimitri Sartison
Dimitri Sartison , is a professional boxer from Germany with orthodox stance. His professional record includes 27 fights: 26 wins , and 1 loss. He lives in Hamburg, Germany, but was born in Rudniy, Kazakhstan. He won the vacant WBA super middleweight title against Stjepan Božić from Croatia on 21...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
November 21, 2009 — Present 1
20   Andre Ward
Andre Ward
Andre Ward is an American professional boxer and the current WBA super middleweight champion.Currently, Ward is rated among the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world. He is rated #6, #7 and #10 by Yahoo! Sports, Sports Illustrated, and The Ring...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
November 21, 2009 — Present 1

Light heavyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Georges Carpentier
Georges Carpentier
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood and his fighting weight ranged from...

October 12, 19201 — February 24, 1922 1
2   Battling Siki
Battling Siki
Battling Siki , aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a French light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912–1925, and briefly reigned as the lineal light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier...

February 24, 1922 — March 17, 1923 0
3   Mike McTigue
Mike McTigue
"Bold" Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1923-1925....

March 17, 1923 — June 25, 1923 0
4   Tommy Loughran
Tommy Loughran
Thomas Patrick Loughran was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the techniques practiced in modern boxing...

June 25, 1923 — August 2, 1923 0
5   Mike McTigue (2) August 2, 1923 — May 30, 1925 1
6   Paul Berlenbach May 30, 1925 — July 16, 1926 4
7   Jack Delaney
Jack Delaney
Jack Delaney was a former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world and contender for the heavyweight crown...

July 16, 1926 — July 27, 1927r 1
8   Maxie Rosenbloom
Maxie Rosenbloom
Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie was an American boxer, actor, and television personality.-Life and career:...

August 30, 1927 — June 6, 1931s 5
9   George Nichols
George Nichols (boxer)
George Nichols won the NBA light heavyweight title by defeating Dave Maier on March 18, 1932, in the 10-round championship match of a tournament held at Chicago Stadium to determine a successor to Maxie Rosenbloom....

March 18, 1932 — December 1932s 0
10   Joe Knight
Joe Knight (boxer)
Joe Knight, also known as Cairo Calamity was an American boxer born in Cairo, GA.-Professional career:...

January 1933 — March 1, 1933 0
11   Maxie Rosenbloom (2) March 1, 1933 — November 16, 1934 2
12   Bob Olin
Bob Olin
Robert Lous "Bob" Olin was an American boxer.He won the World Light Heavyweight Championship.-Boxing career:In 1928 Olin won the New York City Golden Gloves Open Championship...

November 16, 1934 — October 31, 1935 2
13   John Henry Lewis
John Henry Lewis
John Henry Lewis was an African American boxer who was the world Light Heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1939.One interesting fact of his is that Lewis was managed by a gambler and racketeer of the 1930s: Gus Greenlee, a man who became very important to baseball's Negro Leagues as a commissioner...

October 31, 1935 — January 1939r 5
14   Billy Conn
Billy Conn
William David Conn , better known as Billy Conn, was an American Light-Heavyweight boxing champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses and 1 draw, with 14 wins by knockout...

July 13, 1939 — June 5, 1940r 3
15   Anton Christoforidis
Anton Christoforidis
Anton Christoforidis was a Greek light heavyweight boxer.Christoforidis was born in Messenia prefecture, Greece. His first bout was against Francisco Garcia Lluch in Paris, France which he won by decision. He made his United States debut on January 5, 1940 in Madison Square Garden defeating...

January 13, 1941 — May 22, 1941 0
16   Gus Lesnevich
Gus Lesnevich
Gustav George Lesnevich was an American boxer. Lesnevich was born and raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey....

May 22, 1941 — July 26, 1948 5
17 Freddie Mills
Freddie Mills
Freddie Mills, was an English boxer, who was the world light heavyweight boxing champion from 1948 to 1950. He was born in Poole, England.- Early life :...

July 26, 1948 — January 24, 1950 0
18   Joey Maxim
Joey Maxim
Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli was an American boxer. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs.-Early career:Maxim was born in...

January 24, 1950 — December 17, 1952 2
19   Archie Moore
Archie Moore
Archie Moore, born Archibald Lee Wright , was light heavyweight world boxing champion who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of that sport....

December 17, 1952 — October 25, 1960s 8
20   Harold Johnson
Harold Johnson (boxer)
Harold Johnson , is a former professional boxer.Johnson was born in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He won his first twenty-four fights before losing a ten round decision to Archie Moore, who would be Johnson's biggest career rival...

May 12, 1962 — June 1, 1963 1
21   Willie Pastrano
Willie Pastrano
Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano was a light heavyweight boxer who held the world crown from 1963 until 1965.-Early life:...

June 1, 1963 — March 30, 1965 2
22   José Torres
José Torres
José Torres , was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC and WBA light heavyweight championships...

March 30, 1965 — December 16, 1966 3
23   Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...

December 16, 1966 — May 24, 1968 2
24   Bob Foster May 24, 1968 — September 9, 1970s 4
25   Vicente Rondón
Vicente Rondon
Vicente Paúl Rondón was a former WBA light heavyweight boxing world champion.- Personal background :Rondon was born in extreme poverty in Río Chico, Miranda, Venezuela, and decided to escape his poor surroundings by enlisting in the Venezuelan military at an early age.- Professional career :When...

February 27, 1971 — April 7, 1972 4
26   Bob Foster (2) April 7, 1972 — September 16, 1974r 5
27   Víctor Galíndez
Víctor Galíndez
Víctor Emilio Galíndez was an Argentine boxer who was the third Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, after Puerto Rico's José Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon.Galíndez was born in Vedia in the Leandro N...

December 7, 1974 — September 15, 1978 10
28   Mike Rossman
Mike Rossman
Mike Rossman is an American former world champion boxer. He is of Jewish/Italian origin, which led to his monikers "The Kosher Butcher" and "The Jewish Bomber." He finished his professional boxing career in 1983 with a record of 44–7–3, with 27 knockouts.-Life and career:Rossman was born in...

September 15, 1978 — April 14, 1979 1
29   Víctor Galíndez (2) April 14, 1979 — November 30, 1979 0
30   Marvin Johnson
Marvin Johnson
Marvin Johnson is a former boxer from the United States, who fought in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, winning a bronze medal, and made his way up the professional ranks in the light heavyweight division soon thereafter...

November 30, 1979 — March 31, 1980 0
31   Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad is a retired American boxer.- Amateur career :Boxing under his birth name, Eddie Gregory, Muhammad won two New York Golden Gloves Championships. Gregory won both the 1971 and the 1972 New York Golden Gloves 147 lb Open Championships...

March 31, 1980 — July 18, 1981 2
32   Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks is a retired American boxer who was a world champion in the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions...

July 18, 1981 — September 21, 1985r 10
33   Marvin Johnson (2) February 9, 1986 — May 23, 1987 1
34   Leslie Stewart
Leslie Stewart
Leslie Matthew Stewart was an Trinidadian boxer.-Professional career:Known as "Laventille Tiger", Stewart turned professional in 1982 and challenged for the Vacant WBA Light Heavyweight Title in 1986, but was TKO'd by Marvin Johnson when the bout was stopped on cuts...

May 23, 1987 — September 5, 1987 0
35   Virgil Hill September 5, 1987 — June 3, 1991 10
36   Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...

June 3, 1991 — March 20, 1992 0
37   Iran Barkley
Iran Barkley
Iran Barkley is a retired American professional boxer who held world titles at three different weights—middleweight , super middleweight and light heavyweight .- Professional career :...

March 20, 1992 — 1992r 0
38   Virgil Hill (2) September 29, 1992 — June 13, 1997 10
39   Dariusz Michalczewski
Dariusz Michalczewski
Dariusz Michalczewski is a retired Polish- German boxer and former Lineal, WBO, WBA, & IBF light heavyweight champion and WBO cruiserweight champion.-Early career:...

June 13, 1997 — July 1, 1997r 0
40   Lou Del Valle
Lou Del Valle
Louis Del Valle is an American boxer and the formner WBA light heavyweight title holder. He received some of his training at the Morris Park Boxing Club in the Van Nest section of the Bronx...

September 20, 1997 — July 18, 1998 0
41   Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones, Jr. is an American boxer. As a professional he has captured numerous world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
July 18, 1998 — May 15, 2004 10
42   Bruno Girard
Bruno Girard
Bruno Girard was a French boxer at super middleweight and light heavyweight.The light-hitting Girard turned pro in 1991 and challenged Byron Mitchell for WBA Super Middleweight Title in 1999, in his first US fight...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
December 22, 2001 — March 8, 2003 2
43   Mehdi Sahnoune
Mehdi Sahnoune
Mehdi Sahnoune is a French boxer at light heavyweight.Known as "Kounet", Sahnoune turned pro in 1997 and challenged WBA Light Heavyweight Title holder Bruno Girard in 2003, winning the belt by TKO. He lost the belt in his first defense to Silvio Branco later that year...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
March 8, 2003 — October 10, 2003 0
44   Silvio Branco
Silvio Branco
Silvio Branco is a professional boxer in the light heavyweight division. His record is 59-9-2 .- Career :...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
October 10, 2003 — February 20, 2004 0
45   Fabrice Tiozzo
Fabrice Tiozzo
Fabrice Tiozzo is a retired professional boxer in the light heavyweight division. His record is 48-2 .Tiozzo was a two time light heavyweight champion as well as a one time cruiserweight champion....

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
February 20, 2004 — October 19, 2006r 1
46   Antonio Tarver
Antonio Tarver
Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....

 – {{small|Super champion}}
May 15, 2004 — December 2004s 0
47   Silvio Branco (2) October 19, 2006 — April 28, 2007 0
48   Stipe Drviš
Stipe Drviš
Stipe Drews, birth name Stipe Drviš , is a Croatian professional boxer. He lost the WBA's version of the World light heavyweight championship title to Australian Danny Green on the 16th of December 2007.- Amateur career :...

April 28, 2007 — December 16, 2007 0
49   Danny Green
Danny Green
Daniel "Danny" Green is an Australian professional boxer and the former IBO cruiserweight champion.- Amateur boxing career and the Olympics :...

December 16, 2007 — March 25, 2008r 0
50   Hugo Garay
Hugo Garay
Hugo Hernán Garay is a light heavyweight boxer from Argentina-Career:Garay won the silver medal in Buenos Aires World Junior Championships in 1998. In the 1999 Pan American Games, he won the bronze medal in the men's light-heavyweight category.Garay represented Argentina at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

March 25, 2008 — June 20, 2009 1
51   Gabriel Campillo
Gabriel Campillo
Gabriel Campillo is a professional boxer from Spain. He resides in Madrid, Spain. His nickname is "Chico Guapo". His professional record includes 21 fights: 18 wins , 2 loss and 1 no-contest. He won the WBA light heavyweight title from Argentinian Hugo Hernán Garay on June 20, 2009...

June 20, 2009 — January 29, 2010 1
52   Beibut Shumenov
Beibut Shumenov
Beibut Shumenov, is a Kazakh professional boxer who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is the current WBA Light Heavyweight Champion.-Amateur career:Shumenov represented Kazakhstan in the 2004 Summer Olympics...

January 29, 2010 — Present 1

Cruiserweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Ossie Ocasio
Ossie Ocasio
Osvaldo Ocasio, , better known as Ossie Ocasio and nicknamed Jaws, is a Puerto Rican who was a boxer and world Cruiserweight champion. He got his peculiar nickname after accidentally biting another boxer during a sparring session...

February 13, 1982 — December 1, 1984 3
2   Piet Crous
Piet Crous
Petrus Arnoldus Crous was a South African professional boxer.-Professional career:Crous turned pro in 1977 and won the WBA cruiserweight title with a decision win over Ossie Ocasio in 1984. He defended the belt once before losing it to Dwight Muhammad Qawi via TKO the following year. Crous was...

December 1, 1984 — July 27, 1985 1
3   Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Dwight Muhammad Qawi is a former world boxing champion in the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions...

July 27, 1985 — July 12, 1986 1
4   Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield is a professional boxer from the United States. He is a former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"...

July 12, 1986 — 1988r 5
5   Taoufik Belbouli
Taoufik Belbouli
Taoufik Belbouli was a French-Tunisian professional boxer.-Professional career:Belbouli turned pro in 1982 and won the vacant WBA cruiserweight title with a TKO win over Michael Greer in March 1989 in Tunis...

March 25, 1989 — 1989r 0
6   Robert Daniels
Robert Daniels
Robert Daniels , is a professional boxer in the Cruiserweight division.Daniels, known as "Preacherman," turned pro in 1984 and in 1989 he captured the vacant World Boxing Association cruiserweight title by defeating a badly faded 36-year old Dwight Muhammad Qawi...

November 27, 1989 — March 8, 1991 2
7   Bobby Czyz
Bobby Czyz
Robert Edward "Bobby" Czyz is a retired American boxer. A New Jersey native of mostly Polish and Italian descent, he is both a former world light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion.Czyz was born in Orange, New Jersey...

March 8, 1991 — 1992r 2
8   Orlin Norris
Orlin Norris
Orlin Levance Norris, born October 4, 1965 in Lubbock, TX, is an American boxer who held the WBA cruiserweight title and fought in several noteworthy boxing matches in the 1980s and 1990s...

November 6, 1993 — July 22, 1995 4
9   Nate Miller
Nate Miller
Nate Miller born August 3, 1963 in Philadelphia, PA, was a professional boxer in the Cruiserweight division.Miller, known as "Mister" Nate Miller, turned pro in 1986 and in 1994 landed a shot at IBF Cruiserweight Title holder Alfred Cole, but lost a decision...

July 22, 1995 — November 8, 1997 4
10   Fabrice Tiozzo
Fabrice Tiozzo
Fabrice Tiozzo is a retired professional boxer in the light heavyweight division. His record is 48-2 .Tiozzo was a two time light heavyweight champion as well as a one time cruiserweight champion....

November 8, 1997 — December 9, 2000 4
11   Virgil Hill December 9, 2000 — February 23, 2002 0
12   Jean-Marc Mormeck – {{small|Super champion}} February 23, 2002 — January 7, 2006 4
13   O'Neil Bell
O'Neil Bell
O'Neil "Super Nova" Bell is a boxer who is a former undisputed cruiserweight champion, having held the WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring magazine cruiserweight titles.- Professional career :...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
January 7, 2006 — March 17, 2007 0
14   Virgil Hill (2) – {{small|Regular champion}} January 27, 2006 — November 24, 2007 0
15   Jean-Marc Mormeck (2) – {{small|Super champion}} March 17, 2007 — November 10, 2007 0
16 David Haye
David Haye
David Deron Haye is a retired English professional boxer,Haye is the former WBA heavyweight champion. He is also the former unified world cruiserweight champion, holding the WBA, WBC, WBO, and The Ring cruiserweight titles, and also the former European cruiserweight champion.- Amateur :Haye...

 – {{small|Super champion}}
November 10, 2007 — May 12, 2008r 1
17   Firat Arslan
Firat Arslan
Firat Arslan is a German professional boxer of Turkish descent best known to win a WBA cruiserweight title at the age of 37....

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
November 24, 2007 — September 27, 2008 1
18   Guillermo Jones
Guillermo Jones
Guillermo Jones is a Panamanian boxer best known for losing three world title fights in controversial decisions...

 – {{small|Regular champion}}
September 27, 2008 — Present 1
I   Yoan Pablo Hernandez
Yoan Pablo Hernández
Yoan Pablo Hernández Suárez is a Cuban professional boxer. Hernández has been featured in the top 10 rankings of Ring Magazine at Cruiserweight. He is the current IBF Cruiserweight Champion.-Amateur career:...

 – {{small|Interim Champion}}
February 12, 2011 — Present 0

Heavyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defenses
1   Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first...

July 2, 1921 — September 23, 1926 2
2   Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney
James Joseph "Gene" Tunney was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight...

September 23, 1926 — July 31, 1931r 2
3   Jack Sharkey
Jack Sharkey
Jack Sharkey was an American heavyweight boxing champion. He was born Joseph Paul Zukauskas , the son of Lithuanian immigrants, in Binghamton, New York but moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a young man...

September 26, 1929 — June 12, 1930 0
4 Max Schmeling
Max Schmeling
Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...

June 12, 1930 — June 21, 1932 1
5   Jack Sharkey (2) June 21, 1932 — June 29, 1933 0
6 Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.-Biography:...

not recognized by the NBA as champion 0
7   Max Baer June 14, 1934 — June 13, 1935 0
8   James J. Braddock
James J. Braddock
James Walter "The Cinderella Man" Braddock was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937....

June 13, 1935 — June 22, 1937 0
9   Joe Louis
Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time...

June 22, 1937 — March 1, 1949r 25
10   Ezzard Charles
Ezzard Charles
Ezzard Mack Charles was an African-American professional boxer and former world heavyweight champion. He holds wins over numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw.-Career:He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia,...

June 22, 1949 — July 18, 1951 8
11   Joe Walcott
Jersey Joe Walcott
Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of , a record that would be broken on November 5, 1994, by George Foreman, who...

July 18, 1951 — September 23, 1952 1
12   Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was an American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. Marciano is the only champion to hold the heavyweight title and go undefeated throughout his career. Marciano defended his title six times...

September 23, 1952 — April 27, 1956r 6
13   Floyd Patterson
Floyd Patterson
Floyd Patterson was an American heavyweight boxer and former undisputed heavyweight champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by...

November 30, 1956 — June 26, 1959 4
14   Ingemar Johansson
Ingemar Johansson
Jens Ingemar Johansson was a Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world. Johansson was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. In 1959 he defeated Floyd Patterson by TKO in the third round, after flooring Patterson seven times in that round, to win the World...

June 26, 1959 — June 20, 1960 0
15   Floyd Patterson (2) June 20, 1960 — September 25, 1962 2
16   Sonny Liston
Sonny Liston
Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was a professional boxer and ex-convict known for his toughness, punching power, and intimidating appearance who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round...

September 25, 1962 — February 25, 1964 1
17   Cassius Clay {{small
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...

February 25, 1964 — June 19, 1964s 0
18   Ernie Terrell
Ernie Terrell
Ernie Terrell is an American singer, record producer, and former World Boxing Association heavyweight boxing champion. At , he was very tall, by the standards of the day....

March 5, 1965 — February 6, 1967 2
19   Muhammad Ali (2) February 6, 1967 — April 27, 1968s 1
20   Jimmy Ellis
Jimmy Ellis
James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis is a retired boxer from Louisville, Kentucky. He fought in what some consider to be the greatest heavyweight era of all-time, which included Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Jerry Quarry, Floyd Patterson, Oscar Bonavena, Earnie Shavers and George Chuvalo among...

April 27, 1968 — February 16, 1970 1
21   Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
Joseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....

February 16, 1970 — January 22, 1973 4
22   George Foreman
George Foreman
George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...

January 22, 1973 — October 30, 1974 2
23   Muhammad Ali (3) October 30, 1974 — February 15, 1978 10
24   Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks is a former American boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins, and was the former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion of the world...

February 15, 1978 — September 15, 1978 0
25   Muhammad Ali (4) September 15, 1978 — 18, 1979 0
26   John Tate
John Tate (boxer)
John Tate was an American prizefighter and Olympic boxer, who briefly held the World Boxing Association heavyweight title from 1979 to 1980.-Amateur career:...

October 20, 1979 — March 31, 1980 0
27   Mike Weaver March 31, 1980 — December 10, 1982 2
28   Michael Dokes
Michael Dokes
Michael Marshall Dokes is a former American boxer in the heavyweight division, nicknamed "Dynamite."-Amateur career:...

December 10, 1982 — September 23, 1983 1
29   Gerrie Coetzee
Gerrie Coetzee
Gerhardus Christian Coetzee , better known as Gerrie Coetzee, is a South African former boxer. He made history twice: he was the first boxer from the African continent ever to fight for the World Heavyweight Title, and the first to win the World Heavyweight Title...

September 23, 1983 — December 1, 1984 0
30   Greg Page
Greg Page (boxer)
Greg Page was a boxer from Louisville, Kentucky. He was the World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion from 1984 to 1985...

December 1, 1984 — April 29, 1985 0
31   Tony Tubbs
Tony Tubbs
Tony Tubbs is a retired professional heavyweight boxer who was the WBA Heavyweight Champion of the world from 1985 to 1986.-Amateur career:...

April 29, 1985 — January 17, 1986 0
32   Tim Witherspoon
Tim Witherspoon
"Terrible" Tim Witherspoon is an American boxer who was twice world heavyweight champion.-Early career:Witherspoon had eight and a half amateur bouts, losing one to Marvis Frazier on decision after getting knocked down....

January 17, 1986 — December 12, 1986 1
33   James Smith
James Smith (boxer)
James "Bonecrusher" Smith is a former American boxer who was briefly WBA heavyweight champion in the late 1980s. He was the first heavyweight champion with a college degree.-Early life:Smith was born in Magnolia, North Carolina...

December 12, 1986 — March 7, 1987 0
34   Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

March 7, 1987 — February 11, 1990 8
35   James Douglas February 11, 1990 — October 25, 1990 0
36   Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield is a professional boxer from the United States. He is a former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"...

October 25, 1990 — November 13, 1992 3
37   Riddick Bowe
Riddick Bowe
Riddick Lamont Bowe is a retired American boxer. He is a two-time heavyweight champion and a former undisputed heavyweight champion...

November 13, 1992 — November 6, 1993 2
38   Evander Holyfield (2) November 6, 1993 — April 22, 1994 0
39   Michael Moorer
Michael Moorer
Michael Lee Moorer is a retired American boxer who is a former light heavyweight and heavyweight World Champion.-Biography:Moorer is a native of Monessen, Pennsylvania, which is in Southwestern Pennsylvania.-Professional career:...

April 22, 1994 — November 5, 1994 0
40   George Foreman (2) November 5, 1994 — 1995s 0
41   Bruce Seldon
Bruce Seldon
Bruce Samuel Seldon is a retired American boxer and former world champion, having won the World Boxing Association heavyweight title in 1995.-Amateur career:...

April 8, 1995 — September 7, 1996 1
42   Mike Tyson (2) September 7, 1996 — November 9, 1996 0
43   Evander Holyfield (3) November 9, 1996 — November 13, 1999 4
44 Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...

November 13, 1999 — April 29, 2000s 0
45   Evander Holyfield (4) August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001 0
46   John Ruiz
John Ruiz
John "The Quietman" Ruiz , is a former American professional boxer. Ruiz is the first Latino heavyweight champion and former two-time WBA heavyweight champion. After a professional career spanning over 18 years, Ruiz officially announced his retirement from the sport at a press conference on April...

March 3, 2001 — March 1, 2003 2
47   Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones, Jr. is an American boxer. As a professional he has captured numerous world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions...

March 1, 2003 — February 20, 2004r 0
48   John Ruiz (2) February 24, 2004 — December 17, 2005 3
49   Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev or Valuyev is a retired professional boxer and former two-time WBA heavyweight champion. In his most recent fight , he lost the title to David Haye via 12-round majority decision...

December 17, 2005 — April 14, 2007 3
50   Ruslan Chagaev
Ruslan Chagaev
Ruslan Chagaev born October 19, 1978 in Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is an Uzbekistani former WBA heavyweight boxing champion of Tatar ethnicity...

April 14, 2007 — July 5, 2008 – {{small|(Was declared "Champion in Recess", then stripped)}} 2
51   Nikolai Valuev (2) August 30, 2008 — November 7, 2009 1
52 David Haye
David Haye
David Deron Haye is a retired English professional boxer,Haye is the former WBA heavyweight champion. He is also the former unified world cruiserweight champion, holding the WBA, WBC, WBO, and The Ring cruiserweight titles, and also the former European cruiserweight champion.- Amateur :Haye...

November 7, 2009 — July 2, 2011 2
53   Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...

 (Super Champion)
July 2, 2011 — Present 0
54   Aleksander Povetkin - {{small|(Regular champion)}} August 27, 2011 — Present 0

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